[BBLISA] pre-comment on tonight's meeting ("Fragile Ops")

[Patrick Cable]

John, Adam, et. al. have always mentioned "Hey, BBLISA is a great place to
dry run your presentations before you go elsewhere!" And when John
mentioned he needed a speaker for January, I had this in the works and said
"Hey, sure!" To that end, I am actively seeking feedback and iteration on
this.

One note though: This talk is geared mostly towards a business crowd, not a
sysadmin crowd -- since I'm giving this talk at a business school in
February.  My goal is to  trying and package up some stuff we see on our
side of the world and put a bow on it for business types and say:
 - Hey, here are some reasons your central/enterprise IT group is
frustrating.
 - "Putting some cloud on it" sounds pretty enticing. I think this is why.
 - Here are things you may want to think about to turn your IT department
from a cost center into a business peer

I look forward to a good conversation tonight!

- Patrick


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Alva Couch <couch at cs.tufts.edu> wrote:

> On 1/8/2014 1:23 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping that Patrick Cable's talk tonight will provide the
>> magic bullet (or at least a hint) on how to deal with "customer"
>> expectations
>> in the face of wildly varying errors in time estimates for tasks.
>>
>
> I second that. This is a constant pain for me both as service provider
> (with other customers) and as service customer (with other providers).
>
> --
> Alva L. Couch
> Associate Professor of Computer Science
> Tufts University, Medford MA 02155
> http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~couch
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> bblisa mailing list
> bblisa at bblisa.org
> http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/attachments/20140108/dd21d28b/attachment.html>