Archive for the ‘Process’ Category

Don’t Hate the Game, Hate the Process

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

I'm not a big fan of the one-size-fits-all approach to processes. I think that processes can be good, like when they formalize the way people do things and establish a single point of understanding. I think that processes can be bad, like when they're so complex and unrelenting that they ...

New PC, New Risks

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

The subject sums up how I feel today, now that my employer has replaced my long-in-the-tooth Latitude D810 with a brand new Latitude D830. It may not sound like much, but it’s a massive upgrade. Now I can run Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Outlook at the same time! The laptop ...

Process modeling, or modeling processes

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Lately I've been working on documenting the processes I use for reviewing change requests. There are two processes that are used for this weekly endeavor. One involves the lifecycle of a change request from creation to technical approval (my job), and then it goes off to higher powers. The other ...