This is our first of many articles on production scheduling topics. Check out The Ondema Guide to Production Scheduling for an actionable resource to add to your tool chest.
Makespan, in the context of operations research, is simply the amount of time between the start and completion of work.
Ondema is pleased to announce that Nico Lovejoy has agreed to lead our Solutions Architecture team. A technologist and entrepreneur with deep experience in cloud software, digitization, and enterprise transformation, Nico brings a wealth of experience to help Ondema’s customers maximize the realized value of sometimes complex implementations.
If you work with complex systems (software, manufacturing, people, etc.), you know that agility increases productivity, quality, morale, and much more. Agility is a Good Thing.
Our goal for the Ondema Workspace is to make it easy for all users within a company to manage, update and view real-time schedule information for their entire organization. One of the ways we do this is by immediately saving nearly every action* a user takes and reflecting those changes instantly on every screen within the Workspace.
We used a Material-UI component in an update we made today: a small menu to allow users to quickly change the priority of an item:
The first time I saw Ondema’s user interface, I instantly recognized the card paradigm as a powerful visualization of tasks. It’s fairly common in many different applications, so it is a known design pattern that requires little work for the user to understand.
One of the continuing lessons of my personal and professional life has been learning every day a bit more about the intent/effect gap.
In late March there were reports of unemployment web sites being overloaded by demand and becoming unresponsive. This sort of scaling challenge will become less common in the age of serverless, but serverless is still new enough that there is value in a post about how serverless changes how we think about delivering applications. Note: this is a somewhat technical post geared for a technical audience that is familiar with CDNs, APIs, databases, etc.
Rick Lilly joined Ondema this week to lead our business development efforts. Rick’s 25 years of technology experience include managing global cross-functional teams, leading the adoption of Agile in Cisco IT, and managing dozens of complex technology platforms, services, and projects across a range of functions.
Part memoir, part unsolicited advice. Read at your own risk…