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John’s ESM BLOG Episode 1:

By John | July 3, 2007

Sorry folks… I am going to have a little fun with this one…

 

ADVICE : If you are a EVP CDO you might want to think twice about blogging??

 

 ARNnet - EMC exec targets open source for sustainable innovation

 

You know how sometimes you meet a person and within about five minutes you can size them up pretty well.  By just reading this article alone it looks to me as if this Mark Lewis character is a cowboy.  Here are a few of his quotes of why I say this:

 

“We have a great Six Sigma program and while I love it as applied properly, I told those guys if they ever come near our creative process I’m going to shoot ‘em,” Lewis said. “Those kinds of processes for creativity are some of the worst [things] you can do.”

I have been involved on both Six Sigma (actually my wife is a black belt) and ITIL projects and I can tell you that if this stuff is not mandated from top-down it will never work and you are just wasting your time. 

“To encourage participation from a broader development community, EMC plans to run more contests that will reward code writers with prizes for their efforts (Lewis cited a contest to build metatagging for photos).”

Don’t you just love to see true process management in action.  I wonder if this is what he defines as Agile software development.   

“Inside EMC we are community-sourcing more and more code for our internal community, just like you would open source on the outside world,” he said. “It saves us in R&D [and provides] more consistency for our customer base.”

Did I miss something?  Where is the Open part of their open source?

Topics: OSS, cmdb, itil |

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