tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193692382024-03-08T00:28:30.719-06:00< BergerStop />After 20+ years of engineering (energy, electrical, instrument, and software), I find that I have opinions... and not just about work!!!<br><br>Beware! Opinions follow.<br>My opinions are <u>always</u> right, even when I change my mind.Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-24734945616061952592019-10-20T12:21:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.147-05:00Unstructured Business Process(es)
Recently I came across a blog post that discussed the concept of
unstructured business processes. You can find it here.
So, what is an unstructured business process (I hear you
thinking)... Read on.
Internally at my company, I've always talked about dividing
business processes into two types: linear and collaborative. Linear processes
have a set, pre-determined path of execution where Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-12283860093401237262019-10-20T12:16:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:40.954-05:00Professional Development
This past December
2008, our company held an 'all-hands' meeting day. Basically, we all came
together in our main office in Houston to get together before the holiday
vacations and do a little internal training and networking.
I gave a presentation to all our consultants about professional development.
While I believe there was interest in the topic, I think the presentation was
received with Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-20237271801573243932019-10-20T12:13:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.092-05:00A Call for Agreement
Can the BPM industry
please stop 'defining' what BPM is? Please? Pretty please?
Am I the only one who's noticed that every time someone - an individual or a software
vendor or a consultant or a book writer or etc... - talks about BPM, the first
thing that's discussed is "What is BPM?".
I even caught myself doing just that as I was drafting a newsletter article
recently. Ugh!
I know why we doBill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-71404045974369930852019-10-20T12:11:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.422-05:00Are we ready for a true paperless society?
Do you think
technology is at the point where we can eliminate paper from our standard
business process(es) and activities?
I recently had an experience with a company that claims to have done just that
- moved entirely away from paper communications with its customers and now
relies solely upon email for that correspondence.
Sounds good, and in principle should be a means for cutting some Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-92013685060636522392019-10-20T12:06:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.533-05:00Leaf Blowers
Have you ever seen
those guys who cut grass that use a leaf blower?
As I was taking my usual walk the other day, one of them was blowing leaves and
grass clippings across the sidewalk into someone's flowerbed - out of sight,
out of mind.
That kind of behavior really gets to me. And it's not just landscapers that
exhibit this lack of judgment.
I am seeing this kind of behavior with software Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-37868192122224859032019-10-20T12:05:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.256-05:00Response: OJT is Dead; Long Live Training
I've got to rant. Recently, I was forwarded a link to a blog post
by Anne Thomas Manes that poses the notion that SOA is dead. After reading this
post, I had to respond:
Obituary: OJT
OJT met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by
the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. OJT is survived by its
offspring: mentoring, coaching, experiential learning, Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-25281267133412867532019-10-20T12:00:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.201-05:00Java Coding Guidelines
Does your company have a standard or set of coding style guidelines
for writing Java code? Have you ever tried to write one?!? From past experience, I'd recommend against it. Instead, I'd point you and your
Java developers / programmers to Sun's Code
Conventions for the Java Programming Language. This guideline
has been vetted over many years and the entire JDK mostly follows it. As a
Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-61809094694811239892019-10-20T11:56:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.366-05:00Windows Registry Nightmares
I remember Windows (and DOS) before it had a registry... Do you
remember? Remember the Win.ini and the System.ini files (and Autoexec.bat and
Config.sys)? Seems like a lifetime ago - and for some of you I guess it is...
At the time, configuring Windows sure was simpler. Simpler and
easier. Simpler and easier and LESS RISKY.
Not so anymore... Today, the venerable INI files have been
(Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-61656956126443483892019-10-20T11:50:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.311-05:00Supersize Me
Recently, while
preparing for a new engagement, I was re-familiarizing myself with Oracle
because the application(s) I will be working with require an RDBMS and the
client has chosen Oracle.
So, because I have experienced Oracle installations in the past, I decided not
to install Oracle on my laptop. Instead, I planned to install it on a virtual
machine (vm).
Now if you've ever worked with a Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-19608937217845413972019-10-20T11:47:00.000-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.037-05:00What's Your Persona?
I recently read a blog article by
Kas Thomas called "Programmer Personas". Apparently, some
time ago when developing Visual Studio, Microsoft spent a good deal of time
classifying programmers into different personas in an effort to better design
the developer user experience ("What is an End User Software Engineer?"). The personas Microsoft identified were (I copied these
descriptions from Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19369238.post-78792647437491557382019-10-20T11:45:00.002-05:002019-10-20T12:21:41.477-05:00Solutions in the cloud
Everywhere I turn or
read these days, I run into the idea of 'cloud computing'. I guess it's the
term of the moment - the latest IT jargon with the most spin. I've even added
to the discussion by giving an internal discussion / presentation to my company
last week over this very topic.
To get a somewhat accurate idea of what cloud computing is, go to wikipedia here.
For those of us who've Bill Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10318149169782096430noreply@blogger.com0