Our articles will commonly refer to the 4 P’s.
In our space, we commonly deem or assume specific types of effort in an IT startup to be exerted on the business.
The 4 P’s makes reference to any of the four categories in which this type of work can fall:
Anchor post for definitions of business phrases and nomenclature commonly used at D’Mention Systems
What we mean when we refer to ops work…
Future cost accrued when past-and-present shortcuts are taken from a technical perspective, including those in design or use of infrastructural components that are suboptimal. Manifests as a present cost beared by technical practitioners, the payments of which come in the form of maintenance due to breakdowns, poor system performance and slowed delivery/deployment cycles.
Effort focused on analyzing a sought future state or outcome and then evaluating, reasoning and selecting the potential way(s) that this outcome could be reached. This type of effort requires a analytical cognitive context for a person developing the outcome while working alone; and entails participation in collective reasoning and decision-making rituals when working as…
The fashioning of technology using machine language, programming languages or infrastructural configurations to serve the utility of a human endeavor. The “how” is most often executed by technical practitioners.
What we mean when we refer to proactive effort
