So Much For SLA's...
Building on yesterday’s post of how the Preliminary Specification is what the software development team will be building to. In today’s post we discuss the use of Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) in the People, Ideas & Objects community. Simply SLA’s will not be used by People, Ideas & Objects in determining software definitions.
It would seem counter productive to have the community established to produce the Preliminary Specification. With the producers, users, service industry and others being a critical part of that community. And then have some producers not participating in that community because they feel they have their needs contractually agreed to through an SLA with People, Ideas & Objects. SLA’s have been the traditional manner in which firms have managed their technological needs and they will probably see no reason to change this culture. However, there will be no SLA’s here to manage the software definitions.
By contractually defining the relationship between the producer firm and PI&O within an SLA. The producer would seek to manage the specific details of the SLA and claim that we are in technical default when our main page did not load within the 0.125 seconds or other such nonsense. This is the state of vendor relationships when SLA’s get in the way.
As we stated yesterday. Our developers will be developing software that meets the needs of the producers as defined in the Preliminary Specification. If the producers do not wish to participate in the Preliminary Specification that is their choice and therefore their needs will not be specifically met. However, if they are interested in having software that meets their needs, and are willing to actively participate to define their specific, detailed needs then the community is the place for them to be. You’ll have to give up your SLA’s, but maybe those agreements have had better days.
For the industry to successfully provide for the consumers energy demands, it’s necessary to build the systems that identify and support the Joint Operating Committee. Building the Preliminary Specification is the focus of People, Ideas & Objects. Producers are encouraged to contact me in order to support our Revenue Model and begin their participation in these communities. Those individuals that are interested in joining People, Ideas & Objects can join me here and begin building the software necessary for the successful and innovative oil and gas industry.
Please note what Google+ provides us is the opportunity to prove that People, Ideas & Objects are committed to developing this community. That this is user developed software, not change that is driven from the top down. Join me on the People, Ideas & Objects Google+ Circle and begin building the community for the development of the Preliminary Specification. Email me here if you need an invite.