by Dwayne Phillips Engineers create wonderful things now and then. Oblivious users turn the creations upside down and use them backwards. Such oblivious use teaches great lessons that smart organizations use before going to production. Engineers have their babies. Not the human kind of baby, though some engineers have those, too, but the system-that-they-create kind […]
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Engineers and Their Babies
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Design · Learning · Lifecycle · Systems
The MoinMoin Wiki
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments
I have the MoinMoin wiki up and running on a Windows XP machine. I am running a local-only version – no server capability. This was pretty easy and took about 15 minutes. The source for all this is the MoinMoin site. I downloaded the 1.9 release from their download page. This docs page explains how […]
Tags: Systems · Technology · Wiki
Improving the Work
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Systems builders should concentrate on one thing – improving the work of the people who will use the system. Sometimes we lose sight of what we are doing. We build systems. Why? Well, to make money for our employer. We hope the system makes money for the organization that uses it. This […]
Tags: General Systems Thinking · Requirements · Systems