Month: July 2012

  • Open Source is Design for System Resilience?

    You have to support change to have resilience. Dr. Richard Cook at #Velocity2012 http://t.co/i2P3pkP6 <- big implications for #opencloud — Erich Morisse (@emorisse) July 16, 2012 Wow, if this doesn’t sound like the open source philosophy…

  • Casio: Reducing Planning Time and Costs with Standards

    Casio's IT is named "business development department." Wow. I wonder who else thinks that way. http://t.co/RS2t1Jef — Erich Morisse (@emorisse) July 12, 2012 Hats of to Casio for such a forward looking ethos in their IT.

  • 3 Recommendations on Process Scale Reading

    There’s a difference between engineers in most IT shops and in manufacturing.  In IT, there’s a heavier emphasis on design (servers, apps, architectures, etc) than “figuring out how to make things in the greatest numbers and the fastest possible time” [Freedom’s Forge].  With economics what they are today, and the potential operational impact of the…