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Saturday, October 5, 2019 |
Scripts for Adulting |
1. Hello, I’ve been admitted to the 2019 class and I have a question about my high school grades. Can you help? My reference number is #######. * Get the dates and account numbers together ahead of time. |
2. I’m going to get a bad grade in a class, or possibly a withdrawal. * Just the facts! They don’t care what happened. |
3. will this affect my acceptance to university? |
4. does it make a difference if I take the bad grade or the withdrawal? |
5. are there recommended steps I should take? |
6. what was your name? * In case you need to explain where you got advice later. |
7. thank you! |
I’ve found that writing little scripts like that really helped my kids with their adulting conversations as they went through high school and into college. My daughter was very upset about the class, but it wasn’t relevant to her major so there was no point in discussing how or why the bad grade was happening. |
Plan out what you’ve got to say, plot a path that your own emotional hot buttons, and gather the stuff that you can anticipate needing. |
It’s a useful tool for managers as well. Tough conversations are part of the career. If you go in prepared, they are a little less tough. |
1. the company is making a change. * Just the facts. |
2. what’s the reasoning, quick outline of process. * Why is this happening. |
3. how does it impact this team. * Most positive spin possible. |
4. how does it impact you. * Simply your opinion of the reasoning and outcome, and how you came to accept that it was acceptable. If it’s not acceptable, save that for the separate communication where you announce your resignation. |
5. summarize: what’s happening, impact to this team, what should everyone do next. |
If you’ve got lots of time to prepare, you might even think through some likely interactions, but that can backfire by helping you spiral back into emotional territory. The goal is to be able to communicate the facts and save your feelings for a different conversation. |
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 |
Platform and Partners, Round Two |
After reviewing this post on platforms and partnerships, there’s more to dig into. By definition, you can’t cross the Bill Gates line by yourself, but who should you be seeking partnership with? Developers who consult or consultants who develop? What tools should you build for them? |
At the end of that article, I felt that free form coding was required. My reasoning is that the platform vendor cannot predict valuable use cases well enough to produce the toolkit that a consultant would need. This is not condemnation of the toolkit or the consultant. Rather, it is a recognition that high value jobs r... |
Consulting services partners only have linear contributions to your bottom line though. Managing and supporting them therefore needs to be a linear cost, and that implies keeping their toolkit minimalist and simple in nature. |
The most elegant and efficient way to reach this state is to not provide a special toolkit to service partners at all; instead, partners work with the same toolkit that your own development teams use. Imagine a company in which every team’s functionality is available via service interfaces that designed to be eventuall... |
“APIs everywhere” as a partner service model also generates the maximum value for a development partner, who is now unconstrained. They may plugin to your stack anywhere and create value in any way. However, this is not an unalloyed good. Where many services partners are constrained to a single platform vendor (or at l... |
It’s worth picking apart the difference between technical support of a model and legal support of a model. Open APIs as a technical choice is a clearly beneficial system: internal and external teams are on the same footing, allowing maximal value to customers for minimal effort expenditure. The downsides of the model a... |
Licensing models, self-service style |
In my other two posts about licensing, I suggested that flat rate pricing is best for customers, but impossible in enterprise sales because of the variable and high costs of making a sale. |
Those costs are difficult to understand if you haven’t been exposed before, but they are all too real. Weeks spent in negotiating a price are only the start; weeks spent in negotiating contract language are just a feature. What about indemnification? Can the vendor insure the customer against potential supply chain thr... |
What will happen to the deal if the vendor is purchased by another company? Can the customer audit the vendor’s source code? If the vendor goes insolvent, does the customer get to keep the source code? Yes, I have seen a customer organization running their own version of a formerly commercial product a decade after the... |
I was once involved in a contract between two industry titans that included a minimally disguised barter of services, and one of those services was sold to a third company as soon as the ink was dry. The cost to make and then keep that sale was... not small. |
So as a vendor, there is a reasonable pressure to force your cost of sale down, and there is a clear goal: the almost zero cost clickwrap contract. Simply set your terms, disallow negotiation, and let the dollars roll in. It’s the ultimate expression of flat-rate pricing. |
This is a fine approach for what I like to call lifestyle businesses: if you just need enough money for you and your cat to live happily, then sell away. The catch is that the most lucrative potential customers literally can’t buy from your business because of the potential risk. You’re probably good to go if your addr... |
Wait! Singleton users and small teams buy in this model all the time! Expense report reimbursement is open to question, but no one cares if the price is low enough. A frustrated employee may just eat a few dollars for a productivity enhancing tool. The clickwrap model gets extremely blurry around personal computing app... |
However, shadow IT does have some astounding success stories: Amazon Web Services is the obvious example, but Balsamiq, Basecamp, and Glitch (FKA Fog Creek) come to mind as well. If the official channels cannot support a use case and the need is great, then people will find a way. |
Sunday, August 25, 2019 |
Put PICA on Notable Events |
For every notable event, the analyst adds a little PICA. |
What’s a notable event? It’s a record that something happened, or an alert that something is expected to happen. It theoretically requires some form of response, from “read and move on” to “read and acknowledge” to “follow this run book” to “alert the [managers|Red Team|President] and [start the clock|increase logging|... |
What is PICA? An acronym borrowed from the Dallas News by Clayton Christensen. |
* Perspective: what is the importance of this event to the organization’s goals? Does it affect security posture? A service level objective? Is it a compliance breach? |
* Insight: what is the cascade potential for the risk represented by this event? this event? Does it require immediate remediation or is it just a counter to be watched? |
* Context: Is this event a one-off, or is it common? Is it more common for the grouping than the overall organization? |
* Analysis: is this type of event occurring more or less frequently than in the past? |
With a special incident, the statement is clearly true: The SAN is almost full. My perspective tells me that systems are going to stop working, and my insight into those systems lets me understand knock-on events across my organization. I know the context, why we need these systems to fulfill our mission and why that i... |
However, every firewall rule triggered alert in a SOC or breakfast ticket in a diner does not immediately require a great deal of insight. As a developer, I see your low-impact typo ticket and I fix the bug. |
There is still a need for PICA on these low-or-no impact notable events. Perspective: they still consume human attention, wasting the most expensive resource in the environment. Insight: this kind of alert is ripe for automation, and a fine place to use a machine learning algorithm. Context: Reducing the flow of usele... |
Managing the Unmanageable |
I’ve been thinking off and on about containers (FKA partitions, zones, jails, virtualized apps) and mobile ecosystems for a few years. These technologies have gone through several iterations, and different implementations have different goals, but there is an overlap in the currently extant and growing versions. Hold c... |
A container is built, run, and deleted. There is no “manage”. To change or fix it, you go upstream in the process. A phone app may be installed or uninstalled, but it will take care of updating itself from someone else’s activities upstream in the process, just like a container. Users and admins don’t patch them, inste... |
This vision of abstracted management has attractions from many perspectives, which are obvious enough that I won’t waste time repeating them. It is also frustrating to teams tasked with monitoring and managing to existing standards of compliance. The new model is for computing appliances and services, and does not fit ... |
The power of systems management tools comes from the philosophy of the general purpose operating system. Programs run with each other in a shared environment which fosters their working together to serve one or many users. Users, including administrators, can remotely do whatever they need via networking. In the primor... |
The new model does not allow these fundamentals. We aren’t running as root in the remote host anymore. While mobile and laptop systems retain broader abilities, in the strictest container models even communication and files are only allowed to come from one place. There are exceptions as a matter of theory, but organiz... |
This philosophy is not a comfort to compliance auditors, some infosec teams, or traditional systems administrators (hi, BOFH and PFY). It sounds too much like developers sitting in an ivory tower and announcing that they have handled everything just fine, a priori. Even if they say “devops” and “SRE” a lot. But at the ... |
These APIs do not restore management fundamentals; they only allow you to log, to measure states, and to initiate change within the new model’s parameters. Posit that breaking the new model rules is going to fail, immediately or eventually. A management vendor is therefore in a jail cell, and has to differentiate from ... |
A new type of management agent is born for these API-driven appliance models. Maybe it’s implemented in “sidecar” containers or as “MDM approved” apps, or maybe it lives fully in the cloud, maybe it’s the focus of a new vendor or the side project of an established one. There will certainly be pronouncements that it bri... |
A customer who wants single pane of glass visibility, is left with few options: build their own analytics, invest in data lake technologies, or buy extensions to their main management tools. Almost all select two of the three for resilience. |
It may make an unpleasant experience for the management tool, where this ghost of management is fit into the same console and mental model as a full-powered vendor’s real capabilities. “Here is your domain, in which you can do what is needed to ensure your organization’s mission! Except on these special systems where y... |
So, is the single pane of glass worth a cognitively dissonant user experience? Or does the customer split their visibility and control tools and buy something else to glue things back together, moving that dissonance higher up the stack? Because there will surely be dissonance when clicking for action in tool A has to ... |
There is a useful comparison to minority or legacy operating systems. Management and visibility tools universally reduce their capabilities on platforms that aren’t as important to their customers, so very few are excellent on Solaris, AIX, or HP/UX. The important difference is that a vendor’s reduced AIX capabilities ... |
If we imagine a perfectly amazing management tool for AIX that doesn’t integrate with the tools used for Linux and Windows, the choice becomes clearer. Customers don’t require visibility and control for operating systems or computing models, but rather for business functions and services. Buying different tools for dif... |
The goal of the new model is to minimize and ultimately remove management entirely. As long as it is unsuccessful in this goal, there will be rough edges between the new model and the old. Those edges bias towards the old model consuming the new. |
Sunday, August 18, 2019 |
Everything I know about the IT business is from Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla |
Which movie is this? There’s a few, so it’s important to disambiguate! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_Against_Mechagodzilla |
Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Mechagodzilla (which I can only recommend to the fevered or otherwise hallucinating) or even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Mechagodzilla_II (pretty fun, but not a sufficient scaffold for understanding one’s career). To be fair, https://en.w... |
When problems become apparent enough to need resolution, they’re often all-consuming. |
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