Wednesday, October 19, 2005

 

Business, planning, uncertainty

A long day with no end in sight (yet :-), devoted to the business side of my practice. Too many emails and requests for quotation were waiting on my inbox (not to mention post-it everywhere), and my schedule for then next 3 months was too fuzzy and needed some pinpointing. Well, it's still pretty fuzzy anyway, but planning is dealing with uncertainty and adapting quickly to problems and opportunities. Easy to say, harder to practice, and I can tell from experience that it takes time to get good at it.
I used to see "rigid" plans as a good thing about 10 years ago, but that was a different world. Flexible planning requires better management skills, but is much more efficient and open to optimizations. This is true for any kind of endeavor, from planning my hectic schedule :-) to managing a complex, uncertainty-ridden project.
Next week, after 3.5 days teaching and consulting at a customer's site in Udine, I'll be teaching UML at the University of Trieste (lesson 1 of 3). There is a lot of bureaucracy and paper-stuff involved, but hey, that's part of the business too :-)).

posted by Carlo.Pescio @ 5:55 PM <permalink>
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Troppe prenotazioni?

Mi viene in mente cosa fece un noto ristorante nel bresciano. Annunciò la cessata attività e ripartì da zero ;-)
# posted by Anonymous Scuri Romano : 6:03 PM
 
Certo fatto cosi' non serve a molto, da' solo un respiro temporaneo :-)).
Se mai mi saltasse in mente di ripartire da zero, intraprenderei qualcosa di molto diverso, altrimenti che restart e' ? :-)
# posted by Blogger Carlo.Pescio : 7:03 PM
 
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