{"id":667,"date":"2013-04-28T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=667"},"modified":"2013-04-28T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T16:07:20","slug":"technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/28\/technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of what I&#8217;m dealing with at work is that it&#8217;s difficult explaining to people that \u00a0just because there&#8217;s been upheaval, doesn&#8217;t mean that you have to revamp everything. \u00a0Watch a TV show about food, and you&#8217;ll hear one of the judges\/critics chime in about someone using &#8220;good French technique.&#8221; \u00a0When a new chef comes in to a restaurant, he doesn&#8217;t need to retrain his cooks on how to chop onions.<\/p>\n<p>Just because the old chef sucked doesn&#8217;t make the techniques wrong. \u00a0Maybe his ingredients did. \u00a0Maybe the recipes he&#8217;d chosen just weren&#8217;t that good. \u00a0And so on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frustrating to sit in a meeting, and hear people just pulling things out of thin air to do something different. \u00a0In my situation, &#8220;French technique&#8221; is codification of ITILv3. \u00a0Whether or not I really like it is unimportant; \u00a0we&#8217;ve been told to use it. \u00a0Someone spent copious amounts of time developing processes and procedures with its principles in mind. \u00a0Use it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m worng. \u00a0 If I am, cite something to show why you&#8217;re right.<\/p>\n<p>In somewhat-related news, two shootings and a stabbing at the Oceanfront in Virginia Beach last night. \u00a0You want an example of a model that&#8217;s no longer working? \u00a0I&#8217;ll cite Virginia Beach. \u00a0For both the gangland that is the &#8220;tourist-friendly&#8221; Oceanfront, and for the suburban sprawl with incredible traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of what I&#8217;m dealing with at work is that it&#8217;s difficult explaining to people that \u00a0just because there&#8217;s been upheaval, doesn&#8217;t mean that you have to revamp everything. \u00a0Watch a TV show about food, and you&#8217;ll hear one of the judges\/critics chime in about someone using &#8220;good French technique.&#8221; \u00a0When a new chef comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}