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From tomorrow on I'll be system architect (together with a colleague), trying to bring order into the chaos of non existant processes and a lot of different solutions for similar problems in our division, and on the same time trying to reduce complexity, make everything a bit more robust and less "manual" while bringing us into the future.
Whish me luck
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Best of luck! 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Thanks Carlo
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Don't try and do everything all at once. One bite at a time.
Pick some low-hanging fruit to start to
- get some quick successes and impress the higher ups
- test and fine tune YOUR processes
Involve the people that will be using your solutions.
If you can steer them to the 'correct' solution and make them think it was their idea, you will get buy-in a lot faster.
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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Chris is reading, you know?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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He knows. He calls it "Managing Up" 
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: Don't try and do everything all at once. One bite at a time.
Yeah, Luckily I already learned this (the hard way). I hope to not repeat the same error.
#1 - Get knowledge about the current status quo, there is a lot of variance and I don't know every permutation
#2 - Trying to get a good feedback from management about which direction do they want to take
#3 - Organize things in "can die a natural death", "it needs a double tap", "we need this and we have to take it with us"
#4 - Once the system has been cleaned up from zombies and not needed stuff, start working out how to improve it
#5 - We'll see when we come there...
Matthew Dennis wrote: Involve the people that will be using your solutions.
That's something I have always tried when programming PLCs for others, nobody know the machine better that the one using it everyday.
Matthew Dennis wrote: If you can steer them to the 'correct' solution and make them think it was their idea, you will get buy-in a lot faster.
That's something I know, but that I don't master (yet)
Thanks for the tips, Matthew
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Thanks Mike
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Preferably, other people's 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I was thinking the same 
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Microservices are the silver bullet that will make all your problems go away!
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Really? I thought it was garlic...
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I hope you like drawing pictures; I don't know how you pull it off otherwise.
(Mine were used to outsource me in the end ... no problem, got paid a bonus to stick around for the extra 6 months to educate the replacements).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: drawing pictures
With circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back?
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: I hope you like drawing pictures
I don't, but I suppose I will have to do a good bunch of schemata.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: Mine were used to outsource me in the end
That sucks
Gerry Schmitz wrote: got paid a bonus to stick around for the extra 6 months to educate the replacements
I hope the bonus hurt them
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Visio and hyperlinks are your friend.
(If they would have kept me on, I would have had to go to Toronto ... lose-lose).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I have to say, that MindManager looks not that bad. I haven't used it much yet, but I think it could be a nice tool too.
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A little late, good luck. They won't know what hit them.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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theoldfool wrote: They won't know what hit them.
Are you recommending me to start wearing a mask? 
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only to scare the kiddies. 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I am in the youngest 10% of the division... (200+ people) (and I am not that young anymore)
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Not a unique problem except when you have to do it and you seem to understand it. You will do it! Press on.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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thank you
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