When my then girlfriend and I moved into a tiny two-bedroom apartment in Long Beach, California, we started to learn a lot about each other’s routines and behaviors.  We quickly found out that she absolutely could not stand an unlidded toilet seat, and I, an unmade bed.  I made my …

Welcome back to my discussion on configuration management in GENESYS! In my last post on this subject I went through a couple of different concepts, starting with the different levels of data that GENESYS is tracking in regard to changes, then onto the concept of baselining and finally revisioning your …

Over the years, I have seen and heard the word “architecture” used countless numbers of times and ways. Typically, the discussion is from the standpoint of talking about the structure of something. The word “architecture” always seems to be preceded by an adjective like system, electrical, software, or product. While …

The 31st INCOSE International Symposium is now in the record books, and many of us are sifting through the content value that we acquired during the conference. I was fortunate to have presented two closely-related presentations on the “professional competencies” (a.k.a. “soft skills”) of conflict management (Conflict is Your Friend) …