<div dir="ltr"><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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: </div>
<div> - Hey, here are some reasons your central/enterprise IT group is frustrating. </div><div style> - "Putting some cloud on it" sounds pretty enticing. I think this is why.</div><div> - Here are things you may want to think about to turn your IT department from a cost center into a business peer </div>
<div><br></div><div style>I look forward to a good conversation tonight! <br></div><div style><br></div><div style>- Patrick</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Alva Couch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:couch@cs.tufts.edu" target="_blank">couch@cs.tufts.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 1/8/2014 1:23 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:<br>
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I'm hoping that Patrick Cable's talk tonight will provide the<br>
magic bullet (or at least a hint) on how to deal with "customer" expectations<br>
in the face of wildly varying errors in time estimates for tasks.<br>
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I second that. This is a constant pain for me both as service provider (with other customers) and as service customer (with other providers).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- <br>
Alva L. Couch<br>
Associate Professor of Computer Science<br>
Tufts University, Medford MA 02155<br>
<a href="http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~couch" target="_blank">http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~couch</a></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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