The Goal

I just finished to read this novel written by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox. Independently if you work on Manufacturing industry or not, this book reviews fundamental basis related to theory of constraints, methods to manage a supply chain. I specially like the way the team started to think about the process of making themselves … Read more

Enterprise Applications on AWS: SAP

I can access to the Amazon Partner Network and some of the interesting stuff you can find there is training and product information. I did the one related to SAP, and there are some topics very interesting: SAP invites to use the BYOL (Bring your own License) model for creating environments into AWS. You can … Read more

MSP, Benefits management

Programs are primary driven to deliver benefits, this is done by projects that create outputs, which builds capabilities, which transition into outcomes that serve the purpose of realizing benefits. I created this template based on the principles mentioned on the Managing successful Programs, so I can use for guidance during the execution of the programs:  … Read more

“bi-modal” model constraints

Gartner is advertising “bi-modal”; a “new” way to drive operations and new activities of a corporation. I was reading the idea and the concepts around it and I found it “old” idea, with some propositions that are so nice to have, and that they can be defended on the paper, but that in the reality … Read more

Beyond Basketball

Summertime, summer books, and this late summer during a visit to the Barnes & Noble store in NYC I took this book. One chapter, one word, this is how the book is organized, looking for the deeper meaning that these words have for him and remembering some stories related to basketball. Spectacular achievements are always … Read more

OpenSource Vs ISO

During the last 10 years the software companies have jumped to the industrialization thanks to some elements that made that possible. One of them is Open Source. Manufacturing companies developed control organisms for the development of methodologies and standards with different goals: reduce costs, have a common language within the industry, and be compliance with … Read more

Blue/green deployments

Assist to events and learn about products behaviors, their benefits and how disruptive is something is nice. Assist to an event where someone explains you the problems s/he faced is extraordinary. This is what Alec Lazarescu (@alec1a) did yesterday in the AWS loft in Manhathan, discussing about the Blue/green deployments. Behind the Scenes with LearnBop … Read more

Hadoop workshop

Other event in NYC!, where two topics were discussed: First, Michael Hausenblas from Mesosphere, talked about YARN on Mesos, explaining how to build the environment and all the benefits you get. A quick demo about how to it works was the nice part. The second, Steven Camina was introducing MemSQL, all features and all you can do. … Read more

Workshop on Digital Design

A nice workshop where some basis and theories about how the digital design influences on the decisions of a digital user. Presented by Brian Cugelman. Most of the participants were UX developers and consultants looking for the next pattern and ideas to improve their web and mobile applications. What motivates in a positive and negative … Read more