What I learned by Creating Systems for Five Decades
What I learned by Creating Systems for Five Decades
Principles to save you thousands of person-hours and a small fortune.
About the Book
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By using some of the principles of this book, you will leverage off of the author's 100,000 hours of experience creating systems.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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- Foreword
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I Welcome
- 1 Welcome aboard!
- 2 Welcome
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3 Release Cycles
- 3.1 Waterfall Technique
- 3.2 Spiral Technique
- 3.3 Continuous Release
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II Observing
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4 Essential Data
- 4.1 Tableau
- 5 Junk Data
- 6 Presenting Data
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7 Perceptions
- 7.1 Look Upstream
- 7.2 Look to the Sides
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4 Essential Data
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III Basics
- 8 Causes and Effects
- 9 Simplify Systems
- 10 Systems Include People
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IV Estimates
- 11 Estimates
- 12 Sign-off phobia
- 13 Feature creep
- 14 The world economy is a system.
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15 Know What Game You’re Playing
- 15.1 World Events
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16 Security and Privacy
- 16.1 Computer Viruses
- 16.2 Ransomware
- 16.3 Virtual Private Networks
- 16.4 Private and Secure Email
- 16.5 Containers
- 16.6 A Reasonably Secure OS
- 17 Don’t Be a Pioneer
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18 Achilles Heels
- 18.1 Infrequent backups
- 18.2 Dependence on hosting company
- 18.3 Dependence on Cloud Provider
- 18.4 Dependence on a tool
- 18.5 Bank Accounts Vulnerable
- 18.6 Unencrypted Internet connection
- 18.7 Unencrypted email
- 18.8 Spying
- 18.9 Politics
- 18.10 Facebook spying
- 18.11 High crime neighborhood
- 18.12 Limited number of customers
- 18.13 Cash reserves less than three months operating expenses
- 18.14 Cash reserves in one place
- 18.15 Breaking changes where an update pf your software tools causes your software to stop working
- 18.16 Only one of a necessary item
- 18.17 Reliance on a vendor. Consider Open Source,
- 18.18 Intermingling systems. Consider Containers such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Qubes OS
- 19 See the Value of What You Have
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Appendix
- About Jim Kitzmiller
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Jim’s Software Systems
- Business Management System
- Money Status System
- Report Blaster
- HOTS (Hughes Online Tracking System)
- Trucking Company System
- Plating Company System
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Jim’s Empowerment Systems
- Intuitive Chi
- MultiDimensional Chi
- Two different meditation systems
- Novel Writing Course
- Bliss Exercises
- Bliss Writing
- Mozart Flow
- Jim’s Consulting Services
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