Lessons Learned

As I contemplate last year's work and think about lessons learned, I can sum them up in the following three items:

USER INTERACTION

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More visits and shadowing

e.g. It's good to have a face to face relationship to gain trust but more importantly to put myself in the user's perspective and position while performing his/her task so I can design a better system.

BACK TO BASICS

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What the project NEED as opposed to WANTS

e.g. putting a bunch of engineers in a room will end up with more features that are nice to have but difficult to implement making the project complex instead of providing a simple and elegant solution that can meet the project's NEED.  But mixing the different stakeholders in one room will balance out the requirement vs feature sets making the project cost effective timewise and moneywise.

PROBLEM SOLVER

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-Connect information seekers with information.

-Not just a technology adviser but I'm here to provide solutions to broken models.

Be Fluid

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."  Bruce Lee.

 

Career Interest

·          Connecting the dots.

·          Connect information seekers with information.

·          Connect projects spending money with ways to save money.

·          Connect broken models with best of industry standard practices

·          Connect different stakeholders to become a team and solve problems.

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