The law of diminishing returns refer to a point at which the level of benefits gained is less than the amount of effort expended. In other words, reaching an asymptote of progressively less benefit for a given unit of effort.
This is reflective of many jobs in the world, where their exponents quickly approach the asymptote of mastery. Not OSS though.
An OSS maybe. Your OSS perhaps. But not the world of OSS.
New processes, new technologies, new methodologies, new organisations. None of us are likely to be getting complacent any time soon are we?
Making your OSS easy to use isn’t about adding more “easyness” – it’s about subtracting what sucks. “To make your stuff “easier to use” you
During my first forays into OSS, over a period of 6+ years, I averaged 85 hours a week whilst being paid for a 40 hour
The call came in at 5:43am. “The routers are acting up again down at 1313 Packetloss Lane” the night supervisor whispered, as if afraid the
Telco appears to be an increasingly tough industry. Demand for connectivity continues to soar, yet profitability and differentiation are becoming ever more difficult to achieve.
Here at Passionate About OSS, we are exactly that – Passionate About OSS (Operational Support Systems). We’re also passionate about BSS, NMS, or any other names you call the tools that help to operationalise your network.
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Thanks Ryan. You are reminding me of the Software Crisis where a system will have to be “scrapped” as it cannot be enhanced/upgraded or maintained. Thinking about the impact with home grown IT/OSS/BSS solutions where a Roadmap is not in place, not a good understanding of open-source technology (Hadoop, Storm, Spark, Hive, Hbase, Cassandra, Mongo, Openstack, etc..), new business models, etc..
Yes, our world is constantly changing isn’t it Wallis? It always seems to be exciting times in the world of OSS… at least the last 15+ years that I’ve been working in it.
Thanks Ryan for all the updates, etc.. Indeed OSS( and BSS) is no longer the vertical (stovepipe) solution that is applied to one application. Transformation to a horizontal architecture using a well industrialised OSS (and BSS) stack is now required. Yes, it is a very exciting time to be involved with OSS (and BSS).