by Dwayne Phillips In our personal lives, we often take all the risk without asking others to share it. The basic, but rarely asked, question is, “What does each person have to lose?” I am sitting here sipping coffee pondering what to do. Someone is asking me to wait, and wait, and wait. Perhaps they […]
Sharing Risk: What Do You Have to Lose?
January 25th, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: Accountability · Alternatives · Conversation · Differences · Economics · Respect · Risk
Shortcuts (I Hope Nothing Terrible Happens)
June 27th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Recent fueling tests at NASA once again show us the peril of shortcuts. NASA recently completed a fueling test for its Space Launch System. Good for them. Test completed. The story in the link is a good one as it describes several things that went wrong while fueling. One of the problems […]
Tags: Problems · Risk · Testing
Our Mistakes
January 18th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Our mistakes put us in this situation, a tree didn’t fall on us. “How did we get here? What happened?” Simple, we decided to do this and that and some other thing, and we were mistaken. No one made us do what we did. We chose on our own. So, here we […]
Tags: Accountability · Choose · Mistakes · Risk
Step 0, i.e., the Foundation
November 11th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Regardless of how earnest and sincere the persons, being misinformed at Step 0 dooms any endeavor. Step 0 is the beginning. Some call it the foundation upon which all things are built. It is important. In my experience, regardless of how earnest and sincere any person(s) may be, if they are misinformed […]
Tags: Mistakes · People · Risk
Cost, Schedule, Performance
October 17th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There are other words, but there are three basic things to consider in projects and project management, so let’s review these basics. Time goes on. We have new methods and methodologies (let’s toss in a couple of extra syllables to trick in unknowing into thinking that we are thinking), but there are […]
Tags: Calendar · Concepts · Management · Risk · Scope
Outsiders and Risk on Projects
October 12th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We review A fundamental of project planning, execution, and incurring risk. Risk is the answer to the question, “What could possibly go wrong?” The answer is, “Many things could go wrong.” Some of the possible wrong, however, is avoidable. We can prepare better and ensure we do better. The key word in […]
Tags: Management · Risk
The Best Writing Often Comes at a Simple Writing Event
June 29th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some of the best-written pieces were done “on the spur of the moment” at a writing event. That includes week-long events and one-hour events. The summary above is true in my experience. I have read pieces written in five-minute exercises, “Okay, everyone write. I will ring the bell in five minutes or […]
Cloud-Based Development and Risk
September 26th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips What could possibly go wrong with moving all your development to the cloud? At least ask the question. Programmers are running to cloud-based integrated development environments (IDEs). Once again, consumers run away from bad services, in this case the IT department, and towards better services, in this case cloud providers. This comes […]
Tags: Programming · Risk
Fun
April 14th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Never by surprised at what some persons consider to be “fun.” Consider this when managing risk. Recently, Microsoft put an Artificial Intelligence system called Tay on Twitter or something to learn how to chat. Some persons found it and taught it how to chat like a jerk. Microsoft wasn’t prepared for that […]
Tags: Excuses · Fun · People · Risk
The Folly of Stack Programming and Developing
April 7th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips When you rely upon things from other people, you are sometimes greatly disappointed. This holds for programming computers. Are you a “full-stack developer?” Do you argue about what a full-stack developer is? Have you been asked, “Given this problem, what stack would you use?” Sigh. Since the pre-historic times of computer programming, […]
Tags: Analysis · Programming · Risk · Systems