OSS consultants provide you with the opportunity to bring a different set of ideas, insights and connections to your OctopOSS
“The value of your time increases as you lose it“ You are an OSS vendor and let’s say you have a maximum of 40 programmer hours available each week. Let’s also say that you have 20 hours allocated to development of the next version of your product and typically spend another 10 hours on product […]
“I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.” Jerry B. Jenkins Have you played the “What if?” game with your OSS lately? Following on from yesterday’s post about moonshots, have you done any “what if?” analysis on how various possible moonshots might effect your OSS? What if the current network technologies were superseded […]
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” Ralph Waldo Emerson As an OSS consultant, it sometimes* saddens me to see powerful OSS systems being abandoned by organisations who have invested so much, but are now unable or unwilling to make use of their systems. There are so many […]
“You need to feel frustration and discomfort before you can really learn.” Jamie on 37signals.com blog How did you feel when starting out on your first OSS project? Frustration and discomfort were definitely two of the many feelings that I felt. The learning curve was definitely steep. And the more I learnt, the more obvious […]
“The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You’re allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.” Jennifer Aniston A continual improvement exponent will tell you to “Repeat the script for things that work well. Re-write the script for things that don’t.” Sage advice in many situations and […]
“I’ve concluded a great message at its essence packs four complementary purposes into one powerful whole: It connects with other people based on their values (C), rewards (R) them with a benefit they seek, asks for a specific action (A) to get that benefit, and sticks with us in a memorable (M) way.” Katya Andresen […]
“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.” Peter Drucker. Whether working for the OSS vendor, the CSP or the enterprise, the best OSS consultants share many commonalities with innovators. In The Innovator’s DNA, five “discovery skills” are identified that distinguished innovators from non-innovators. These same five traits […]
“If I was slashed and cut into pieces, over and over again, and put into the mill and ground into flour, burnt by fire and mixed with ashes – even then, I could not estimate Your Value.” Sri Guru Granth Sahib You ask all the difficult questions don’t you? Actually, “how much will this cost” […]
“When I was with John, I thought he was the greatest person in the whole world.” Then why did you marry Bill, the friend asked. “Because when I’m with Bill, he makes me feel that I’m the greatest person in the world.” Technology is not the panacea for business problems. A vendor’s product, a vendor’s process […]
