Results tagged “process” from manAmplified

My client uses MKS. And they don't dislike it. But those of us who remember our freedom feel a rebellion welling up inside us. If we don't act soon, I fear we may begin to identify with our captor and learn to love our captivity.

I'm currently working through a handful of requirements that will close the feature gap between an older content management system and a newer one. Both have been developed in-house. The first being MS based and is loosely a content management system, the second Java/XML/XSL based, and really a content management system. One thing I'm fighting is keeping the old process wrapped around the old system from leaking and staining the new system.

Poincare made a statement about mathematics that strikes me as true for computer science. To paraphrase:

Mathematics must always move in two directions, that of critical self-reflection and towards the study of nature. The Hilbert Challenge

I don't think I can stress enough the utility of having a staging environment that you can clone the relevant bits of and then surgically implant into an ailing production system.

We've all heard the term System of Record. Turns out there are a couple other generalized logical systems typically found in a business. Here is a quick attempt to model those systems.

Unskilled and Unaware of It.

"People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it."

In an interview, Victoria Livschitz touches on a problem that has been bothering me for some time. Notably, "The sequence of the routine itself -- what comes before what under what conditions based on what causality -- simply has no meaningful representation in OO, because OO has no concept of sequencing, or state, or cause."

Obviously, in any industry, a given vendor will have strengths and weaknesses compared to her competitors. The BPM space being no different seems to have two opposing ends. Back-end integration and human-to-human workflow, which are met in the middle with a process language.