control
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🛣️ The two ditches
Along roads, there is often a ditch or some undesirable obstacle on either side of the road you want to avoid. The same can be said for most of life, including product development. There are two common errors: Build it all yourself: You dr…
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🌀 Complex systems are hard to predict
My wife makes sourdough, which is a multi-day process and at times unpredictable. Recently, the current batch was a little sluggish and not expanding like it should, so she “fed” it and left it on the counter. It took off during the night a…
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📁 Git* solves the problem of managing files
The thing you get with Git* is a sane way to manage files: organization (team/repo/directories) documentation (excellent support for Markdown) efficient navigation (links in READMEs and other markdown files) history (who changed what when)…
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🕹️ What can we control?
There are some things we can control: Products have a robust field update mechanism. Automated testing is in place. We have automated deployments. We have processes to quickly and confidently make and release hardware changes. And some th…
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😨 Control is a scary thing
Control is a scary thing – because then we are responsible. And if we are responsible, then we can’t blame someone else. But if we are not responsible for anything, then what are we doing? How are we adding value? Why would anyone want what…
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🎛️ What is control?
What is control in the context of Your Platform? Control is simply the ability to respond to opportunities and problems. In modern systems we are very dependent on others as there is no way we can do everything ourselves. But we can also st…
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🎯 Why do we need some level of control?
In today’s connected systems, some level of control of your Platform is needed. Security problems needed fixed. Problems needed debugged. Problematic subsystems need swapped out. Suppliers go out of business. Parts go obsolete. New customer…