Using Wikis Kills So-Called "Enterprise Systems" During Harmful Meetings
Disregard the title. I just have these three links hanging around in my "to blog" queue. I had planned on adding commentary an analysis to the postings of each of these links, but I never get around to doing so. So rather than having them just sit in my queue continually doing nothing, I am just going to post the links with short quotes.
By in large, people don’t know how to use Wikis... because they haven’t started using them yet. Guess what? That’s how Wikis are for pretty much everyone – even our beloved freaks and geeks in the tech sector where Wikis originated. Wikis are hard to 'get' from a distance. If you start using a Wiki you will begin learning why they’re useful and soon you’ll have five or ten new ideas about ways to use them for your efforts.
The death of enterprise software
For enterprise software, I think organizations will turn away from monolithic and expensive systems with terrible user experiences -- and correspondingly low levels of satisfaction, quality, and efficacy -- as the best means of meeting business needs, and shift to a mixed palette of semantically integrated capabilities or services delivered via the Internet.
A few reasons why frequent and long meetings are t3h sucK:
- They break your working day into small, incoherent pieces on a schedule incompatible with the natural breaks in your flow
- They are normally all about words and abstract concepts, not real things (like a piece of code or a screen of design)
- They usually contain an abysmal low amount of information conveyed per minute
- They often contain at least one moron that inevitably get his turn to waste everyone’s time with nonsense
- They drift off subject easier than a rear-wheel driven Chicago cab in heavy snow
- They frequently have agendas so vague nobody is really sure what its about
- They require thorough preparation that people rarely do anyway
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