A CrowdStrike update on 19 July 2024 affecting about 8.5 million Windows computers caused a lot of people grief as they had to postpone their vacation travels or worse their medical treatments were postponed or they could not reach the emergency response services. The estimated cost of this incident for the Fortune 500 companies is 5.4 billion US$, which is more than a full year of revenue for CrowdStrike. Note that… Read More »The CrowdStrike wake-up call
My book The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification has celebrated its first anniversary. I would like to thank everyone who bought a copy and for the amazing feedback. To celebrate the first anniversary I will share chapter 4 from the book which covers the Part Re-Identification Decision tree I propose. Don’t forget to get your own copy! Re-identification decisions always start with understanding the impact of a change. This is not always… Read More »Part Re-Identification: It is not about the Tree
On Wednesday 15 May I presented CM+AI: A Day in the Future Life of a Configuration Manager during the IpX International CM2 Congress. For those who missed it here is what I presented. Note that this presentation is also a tribute to Mike McKinney and Chrissy Sigrist for their contribution to the world of CM. What is AI? According Microsoft AI is: It’s the capability of a computer system to… Read More »CM+AI: A Day in the Future Life of a Configuration Manager
Co-Authors: Florian Böhme, Jean-Hervé Poisson, Lucas Heckmann, Badia Dandana, & Chris Seiler This is the third article in the CM+Agile series. This time we highlight how Configuration Management is the glue between Model-Based Systems Engineering, Product Line Engineering, and Agile teams. Introduction In today’s ever-evolving engineering landscape, the pace of change is not just constant; it’s accelerating. We observe fast transformation programs, more palpable than ever before in organizations. This is for the most triggered by… Read More »How Configuration Management is the glue between Model-Based Systems Engineering, Product Line Engineering, and Agile teams.
I recently listened to the IpX True North Podcast where Ray Wozny CEO and Ken Black VP of Education at the Institute for Process Excellence talked about their CM(2) journey, which I really enjoyed. This article will highlight some of the insights they shared. One in particular is the Enterprise Change assessment or what I call Impact Analysis, which Ken indicates is crucial for the successful processing of a change. A step that is often skipped or done poorly. An example… Read More »Embedding the Change: from Dynamic to Static
In the last days of 2023, Martin Eigner posted about Form, Fit, and Function and one of the topics in there was the revisions of Parts. I thought about adding my comment, but it was difficult to capture everything in a short comment. So with this post, I try to provide my insights into the topic, which will be a rewrite of an existing post from a couple of years ago: HELP!!! Parts, Documents,… Read More »Parts don’t have Revisions
We are nearing the end of 2023, so it is time to reflect on and recognize our achievements. On 10 January 2022, I started with a monthly newsletter, The Future of CM, which reached 1775subscribers at the time of writing this post, which is an increase of 380 subscribers compared to last year. This year I also started a collaboration with Florian Böhme,Lucas Heckmann, Jean-Hervé Poisson & Badia Dandana resulting in two excellent articles that were very well… Read More »The Future of CM – Achievements – 2023
Why is Configuration Management so hard to implement and embed in an organization? Over the years I have been involved in various implementations of different aspects of Configuration Management. One thing that stood out was how difficult it is to get buy-in, to get real traction to implement the needed improvements, and to make them stick. This is not just my experience, I have heard this from many Configuration Management… Read More »Help…Why is Configuration Management so Hard to Implement?
This article will explore another use case to extend the knowledge graph of the CM Baseline, where we will not only look at the product data to create a kind of product 360 but also all the process and event data related to this product data. By adding events as nodes into a Knowledge Graph, you show events of a specific product data node, but also the interactions between these… Read More »Boost your Knowledge Graph with Events to gain Untapped Insights
Steadfast Consistency: Delving into Configuration Management with Martijn Dullaart I joined Helena Gutierrez and Jos Voskuil on the Share PLM Podcast. We talked about Configuration Management, Product Lifecycle Management and my journey so far. Here you can find the all the Share PLM Podcasts: To listen on your preferred platform Header Photo by Matt Botsford on Unspla