Richard Davis came by the Vuuch offices the other day to have a look at what we are doing. Richard is well know by the CAD and enterprise software worlds as he has followed these markets closely for years. Although this was the first time I had ever meet Richard I certainly knew his name from [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve all been there – meetings that go on and on while you sit there knowing that as soon as the bagel crumbs are wiped away and coffee cups recycled, your team members will return to their places with the same bad habits. Team Meetings help distribute information and get everyone on the same page, [...]
Continue Reading →Project plans are a mainstay of delivering any sort of project, yet even the best project teams with the most elegant project plans seem to maintain some sort of “project list”. A project plan is just that – a plan of how you want something to happen. The plan does not mean it will happen [...]
Continue Reading →As you may know, we present a live webinar every week at noon ET. You can always sign up for the next week’s webinar by visiting http://www.vuuch.com/webinar.
Occasionally, we record the webinar for the convenience of customers in time zones distant from the east coast of the US and for those who want [...]
Continue Reading →I was reading Oleg’s post http://plmtwine.com/2011/07/07/google-plm-and-the-product-data-sharing-models/ on sharing models and Google circle and it got me wondering what they are up to…
So what is Google up to with Circles? My belief is they fully understand the problem of information overload that results from social streams. Yammer, Jive, Facebook, Twitter, or any other social [...]
Continue Reading →You know that feeling when you are about to say something and you can just feel everyone ready to pounce? I suspect that by the end of this post there are going to be a few people [...]
Continue Reading →Some people believe that generational shifts mean that email has peaked as a communications medium. After all, even grandma now has Gmail, doesn’t she? Social networks mean that a new generation is used to their friends’ activity streams, further obviating email. The handwriting is on the wall for an eventual decline in email, right?
Well, [...]
Continue Reading →Although I’m not sure if it was SharePoint or ProductPoint that was once the new love… it is now clear they have the makings of an ugly divorce and customers are getting another technology dear john. In the beginning emotion and promotion was rampant – Like any new love affair…
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All around us, computing is moving into the cloud. But what, exactly, is cloud computing? Is it email you access in a browser? The apps you use on your smartphone? A corporate data center? A set of APIs for connecting to computing services? All of these?
It’s not a trick question. The real answer [...]
Continue Reading →This post started as a reply to Oleg’s post on work-in-progress (WIP) versus system-of-record http://plmtwine.com/2011/06/06/plm-work-in-progress-vs-system-of-records/ but by the time I was done I had written more than a comment…
As Oleg points out there are two distinct things going on. There are, as he states, systems of record and WIP tools. While I agree [...]
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