“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 designing OSS systems and processes, too many engineers / analysts treat Osgood’s statement as gospel, that every single exception has to be handled as part of the rule.
There are too many OSS that have the rule (ie the ~80% of cases in Pareto’s 80/20 rule) bogged down by designing processes to handle all the exceptions (ie the 20% of cases).
My preference is to streamline the normal (ie the 80%) and hand off exceptions to special resolution processes. I also try to suggest / impose ruthless simplification and standardisation where possible to ensure that there are less variations of exceptions to be handled.
Standing out in a highly saturated and fragmented OSS market can be really difficult. We’re regularly involved in bake-offs where we see dozens of OSS
One of the things I love about my job is all the vendor demos I get to see. Product demos are one of the four
Have you read the book, “The 4-hour work week” by Tim Ferris? It was one of those relatively rare books that inspired a complete mindset
Over the years, we’ve been involved in many OSS procurement events and have seen a variety of different pricing models proposed by vendors. Being software,
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.
