“Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.”
Zig Ziglar.
So many OSS projects get bogged down in logic, discussions, technical pontification, etc.
But in my experience, a month of discourse can be replaced by a week of doing, especially when the customer is using COTS (ie commercially available off the shelf solutions). Or in the case of one project that I worked on, 18+ months of discourse and approvals was delivered in less than two weeks of doing.
Rapid prototyping forces the delivery team to crash through all the real barriers rather than what-if scenarios dreamed up in the logic stage of a project. Sure, a high-level design needs to be done but in most cases it shouldn’t take months to complete and approve. A rapid prototype breaks down the what-if questions and forces the team to work with a smaller sub-set of actual issues, not to mention identifying real issues that nobody envisaged in the logic stage.
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.
