Minimise the tentacles on the OctopOSS. Keep it simple
“A huge chunk of the brain power we have sitting on our shoulders is devoted to processing visual images. It’s how we communicate. It’s how we share information. It defines who we are… All the great theories of the world are not equations, [rather] they are based on simple principles which can be manifested as […]
“The word “simple” has become so cliché that I try not to use it anymore, but ultimately the point is that things are pretty easy and simple until you make them hard and complicated. So we’re always trying to keep them as simple and easy as they naturally are. So if we have a big […]
“Enterprises able to successfully innovate at a breakthrough level are far more likely to dominate and prosper in the new markets they create” From a recent survey conducted by Accenture In the survey discussed above 93% of executive respondents indicated their long-term success relied on innovation. However only one-third felt their organisation were well placed to innovate. […]
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” Bruce Lee. Whether you’re a vendor or a customer, there is a tendency to get lost in the complexity of your OSS. Just as Bruce Lee did with his training, there is complexity waiting to be hacked away from most OSS. There […]
“There’s a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.” Mario Batali. If you’re an OSS developer, it’s easy to see all your work as high art. And in many cases it is. There is an amazing sense of achievement to build something so powerful. Unfortunately […]
“Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.” Frank Lloyd Wright. If you were asked to provide an impartial analysis of an OSS, what factors are important? Every OSS has vastly different functionality but there are several factors that affect the overall experience a user has […]
“Don’t be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.” Celine Dion. The story behind today’s post still vexes me to this day. Yes, Celine Dion vexes me too but that’s a whole other story. In the early 2000’s I was tasked with building a […]
“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?” T. S. Eliot. We all know OSS hold lots of data. But why? What is the knowledge gained from the information? I believe there are five main types of data that are essential for true business intelligence: Operational data – the near real-time data that allows […]
“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” Daniel Keys Moran. OSS technologies will undergo changes from any number of directions in coming years and disruptive approaches will undoubtedly morph OSS from their current form. Irrespective of this evolution, we can simplify. The reason that OSS are relevant now and […]
“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” Jim Barksdale. I was discussing performance reporting with a friend yesterday and he made a simple, yet profound statement that I agreed with wholeheartedly. When it comes to performance reporting, it’s not the information presentation that is […]
“What revenue model should I use? = the wrong question to ask. Why will people pay me? = the right question“ The Board of Innovation. There are so many different revenue models in OSS that there are no simple apples-for-apples comparisons on price. There are perpetual licenses, annual licenses, processor-based licensing, node-based licensing, named user […]
““Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated..” Confucius. As technologists, we all have a tendency to speak in jargon with our peers. Having worked on OSS projects in many countries, I’ve been amazed at how different the OSS jargon is within our industry, within different companies and even by different groups […]
“I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.” Marilyn Monroe Will there be a time in the not too distant future where traditional telco services become a pure commodity? For example, will users simply plug into socket in their wall and get ubiquitous bandwidth / cloud services […]
“…don’t ask your customers what they like or don’t like about your product. Or what they’d change if they could. That’s all about you. If you want really insightful answers, ask them about themselves instead. You can find out a ton about you by asking them about them.” Jason Fried. Let’s say you were out […]
“Most of the services being churned out today are long-tailed and flame out quickly, making them ill-suited to siloed management. A new philosophy of enablement is needed, suitable for an ecosystem where innovation could come from anywhere, and this is why the business support system must evolve into the business enablement suite (BES).” Jiao Aijun […]
“Testing as a Service (TaaS) – People, process, accelerators, tools, technologies delivered in a consumable as-a-service model” Ahmed Adel in this Slideshare pack Testing as a Service has its merits for performing quality control on an OSS product set. It certainly provides greater resourcing flexibility and the swarm engineering model allows a faster time to […]
“Be aggressive in simplifying the BOSS to the bare minimum as customers are not seeing the difference of all the bells and whistles” Alan Quayle. Have you ever noticed that almost every B/OSS project is an upgrade, addition or a transformation? There are barely ever any reduction-only projects. I often wonder whether the large CSPs […]
“The digital world is much more fragmented – an ecosystem of different players each delivering their element of the service – with a different access network, core network, computing, storage and many applications providers. And where services comprise a number of aggregated application services, the challenges get even harder. If the only person getting the […]
“There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.” Charles Osgood. When it comes to customer experience management at a CSP, Charles Osgood’s statement rings true. A friend of mine recently talked about the challenge of solution design where “Everyone is an exception.” When it comes to […]
“You can’t plan a script. The beauty of improvisation is you are experiencing it in the moment. If you try to plan what the next line is supposed to be, you’re just going to be disappointed when the other people on stage with you don’t do or say what you want them to do and […]
