The first two short stories were a strong opening, which makes perfect sense for a compilation... then of course they cash all that good will & expectation with the incomplete "The Lifecycle of Software Objects".
For all the build up, all the emphasis of self governance & individual rights...
>!The reluctance to allow even a copy of their pets be sold to be pimped by the sex software business... it would so perfectly have opened the door to exploring the philosophies of choice and coercion in unbalanced power dynamics without going into any depictions of sex if the copy of the pet was basically a mentor / experience sharer with the un-emotionally tweaked original, just talking about how they feel. The pets would then have everyone sexually enabled, but not everyone being sexually inclined, those not supercharged for sex still talking to those that are inclined for how it makes them feel, so they can see how it can affect someone else. Introducing choice of who you associate at a much bigger degree than just hanging out in a Fandom chat room for friends. Was a real drag it was a sluggish buildup to a non-problem being the climax.!<
Hi,
I have found this community incredibly helpful.
I am planning to move into the field of Business Analysis. Trying to get a comprehensive picture what roles and documents are created by the BA in a full cycle.
Whilst the documents and processes depends upon industry as well as software methodology used. Can you guys suggest docs created by the BA in a generic lifecycle. Here's a guess, feel free to edit or add to the list. (things in the brackets are tasks done by the BA)
INITIATION (Kickoff meeting,project charter, stakeholder register, impact analysis, risk analysis)
REQUIREMENT GATHERING AND ANALYSIS (Creating RMP, BRD, FRD, Use-Cases, As-is and to-be process flows, Gap Analysis, RTM etc )
DESIGN (workshops for technical details/design workshops, assisting system architects,sign off)
DEVELOPMENT (explaining gathered requirements to developers, answer queries about system)
TESTING (Test cases, UAT, mapping use-cases to UAT, cross-check initial requirements with working solution, maintaining deficiency log)
DEPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ( assist business users who might come with new or revised enhancements )
Thanks again !
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I’ve been a programmer for a decade now but diagnosed with ADHD about six months ago. All through my career it’s been the same story - I start off great, but stall in six months or so and my work slips a lot. Then I panic that I will get fired and work a lot and get burnt out. The cycle repeats. Soon my team realizes that they can’t trust me and start giving me low stakes work. This demotivates me further and I start looking for a different job or any other way out. Then in the new company, the pattern repeats. Getting my ADHD diagnosis has been a relief, because I thought I was just broken and lazy when I saw my juniors at the company get way ahead in their careers and I’m being given the same low stake tasks to do. I am in a new job and with the quarantine and all, the cycle is starting in 2 months. I want to quit already because I haven’t met my team in person and feel very disconnected. I am convinced they think poorly of me and it’s making it hard to get anything done. My 2 big problems seem to be the daily scrum standup and modifying my PRs based on the feedback I’ve gotten from the team. I can do everything else more easily. I’m particularly enjoy the initial design and architecture phase (which makes sense with ADHD) But I dread going to Standups. I’m half asleep at 10:30 in the morning and get extremely anxious to provide an update. I end up agreeing to everything and painting a great picture of the status of the work while in reality I could use a lot more help in unblocking my tasks With PRs - I just get lost in all the disparate comments and I end up procrastinating on it. I my PRs just sit there with no progress for weeks because I have such a mental blocker towards making these changes. Btw I am on medication for the past 3 months. But I think I need to get a higher dose or some other meds because this is not working as well as I had hoped. I am talking to my psychiatrist on this. But I also understand that pills don’t teach skills. So I’m hoping I can get some good tips and tricks here if anyone else has faced similar problems.
I have 5 years of JS dev experience, both frontend and backend. Through my experience in a startup I have grown into managing the dev team and strategizing features and sprints. I have recently moved to London and looking for new opportunities.
Should I get certified? And is there any certification for software team managers?
Note - Already looked into Prince2 Agile, SAFe, PMI and APMG. They all look promising.
Hi everyone, I’ve been looking all over the RH OpenShift documentation to find what the OLM actually is (ie what it can be classified as). I understand what it does and what benefits it has on the users. But what exactly is it? A software? Framework?
I joined a new company under the same group company I had been working for 2.5 years in Feb this year. My group or even my company has always been a company with strong engineering roots and have been involved with hardware products since inception.
Software products really kicked off a few years ago and the product that I'm managing with 2 other PMs started 2 years ago.
Honestly, it seems that the management is ill equipped to deal with software products. Focus is strong on short term financial planning and goals such as achieving our ebit targets even at the cost of losing our momentum. We spend hours and hours working on business cases and cost cutting sceneries to please management rather than focus on customer value.
Product wise, I like what I do. Or rather I did like it. Now, I am not so sure. There's a lot to learn but given my frustration, I'm planning to quit. The head of our department seems quite incapable of making hard decisions and we end up discussing same things again and again. From budget and goals perspective, we are like a startup but we have lost the single most important advantage a start up has and that is speed.
End of rant. Not sure what kind of advice I am looking for but just wanted to blow off some steam.
Hey fellow sysadmins,
I was wondering what do you guys use/recommend for ULM? I know there's tons of options out there, we've got over 50k employees and we're still using a mishmash of powershell, ARS, AD Manager(yes we're paying for both), SCORCH, etc to provision new accounts.
In the last year we've started using SNOW and management wants all IT requests to go through that now, including new hire provisioning. but we don't have a good ULMS to manage things.
So, anyone have any suggestions for a good ULMS?
So I may not even be using the correct terms for the product category. However, I am looking at a way to automate the movement of data between different platforms with policies. This is dealing with primary file data sitting on NFS/SMB and executing various rules (atime, etc) to target either other network locations or cloud (S3/Glacier).
Anyone have software suggestions for such tools?
I’m a new engineer in the product development team at a small company (25 people, 4 on the product team) and I would like to implement some PLM tools to streamline our processes. Being a small company, the license fees for some of the larger PLM softwares are too much and the enterprise class tools are overkill. We use Fusion360 and would like some PDM tools involved also. We manufacture in the US and Asia and it would be nice to allow the factories to access data on there as well.
There are a lot of articles about the best PLM software but they all feel like a sales pitch from whichever one is the top rated. I’m open to any digital tools and software, it doesn’t have to be called PLM software but something more than google docs.
What do you use? Do you know how much you pay for it? What do you like and dislike about it? How large is your company? Do the technology-averse people have trouble with it? Anything else?
Thanks!
It's one of the stories in his book collection of short stories, similar to his first book "Stories of your life" which inspired the movie Arrival.
This short story was incredible. And the only thing I'm gonna say about it is that it didn't end the way I expected, and that it made me think really hard about a lot of really important things - which is what he does best ...
Time for bed. I'm not done the rest of Exhalation, so no spoilers lol.
Hi, I'm exploring various aspects of Software Engineering.
I wonder how does a UI Designer knows what data fields will be needed in a project?
Do you guys receive a Database Design from a System Analyst and follow it to define different fields and other data in a UI?
Or you guys consult with the product owner to find out what data and fields will be needed for any given screens? Then the System Analyst will design the database according to your design deliverables.
As you can see, it's a vice-versa situation. But I want to know how UI Design and Database Design works in a software project.
Thanks
Does anyone do anything around monitoring EOL software?
I'm thinking of something that allows you to report on all the installed versions of software you have out there, identifying those versions that have gone EOL. We have a partial roll your own solution, but the hard part is finding those EOL dates for all the software that is out there and keeping it all up to date.
Some vendors are fairly easy to find info on (MS, Sophos, Veritas), but even then the number of applications we have in our estate means that keeping on top of all the new releases and retirements is more than a full time job. Ideally there would be a feed somewhere that aggregates these lifecycle reports form all the major vendors, Something like a WarrantyMaster for software.
Hi all :-) I am relatively new to a job as Tech Coordinator, and have been trying to come up with a long-term budget plan so that critical devices can get replaced when they go End of Support. Does anyone here use any kind of calendar or project planning software that can create a visual timeline? I've discovered "Office Timeline" but I'm not sure if that's an actual Microsoft product, or if there are other, better alternatives out there ...?
Kinda lost for word with this one. Reading Exhalation and man this story just hit me in a way that so few have. Everything about it I found perfect. Chiang is a master of looking at issues sci-fi deals with and humanizing them and this may be his best yet. The story of Ana, Derek and the digients hit me like a ton of bricks.
The way Chiang views the development of AI. his views on it in general fascinate me. So refreshing to have an AI story where the AI doesn't turn into a killing machine over night. It's also the most real approach i've seen to the subject. We see the Digients fail, become obsolete and be passed by better models. One of the best pieces of science fiction I have ever read.
