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Achievements 2023

The Future of CM – Achievements – 2023

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

Circle of Competence

Circle of Competence in Configuration Management

Welcome to the first The Future of CM newsletter of 2023. We continue exploring the next mental model in this series: the Circle of Competence and how this relates to Configuration Management. Especially how the CM Baseline can help us find the needed competencies when assessing a change.    Circle of Competence The Circle of Competence is a mental model about knowing what you do know, and especially what you do not… Read More »Circle of Competence in Configuration Management

achievements 2022

The Future of CM – Achievements – 2022

We are nearing the end of 2022, 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 1395 subscribers at the time of writing this post, which is way more than I expected to get when I started.  The 2022 achievements in numbers So let’s look at some statistics from LinkedIn: Impressions: 46325 Views*: 16605!!!  Likes: 759 Comments:… Read More »The Future of CM – Achievements – 2022

Lollapalooza Effect in the Antilope Canyon

Opportunity cost and the Lollapalooza effect

My previous article about the compounding effect of changes was the first in a series to explore different mental models and how to apply them in Configuration Management. This article will focus on two mental models that can influence our decision-making around changes: Opportunity cost and the Lollapalooza effect. Opportunity cost Opportunity cost is the mental model that explains how you can only spend your time and money once, and therefore you will… Read More »Opportunity cost and the Lollapalooza effect

Compounding liquids

How to benefit from the compounding effect of changes

In ‘Ethical fading eats Configuration Management Principles for breakfast,’ I ended with the need for mental models to prevent ethical fading. This article will be the first in a series to explore different mental models and how to apply them in Configuration Management. The first mental model we will explore is probably known best from the world of finance: Compounding. However, interest is not the only thing that compounds over time.… Read More »How to benefit from the compounding effect of changes