by Lee Fitzsimons | Aug 16, 2024 | Articles, Uncategorized
Download this article as a PDF I’ve been sitting on this article for a little while, it was always missing something. Then, Peter Stuttard shared a quote (on LinkedIn) from a Navy Lookout article titled “End in sight for Royal Navy attack submarine woes?”. The...
by Lee Fitzsimons | Jul 20, 2024 | Articles
Aspire help bring together a global event for the integrated support community! In June, Aspire was very proud to help put together an event for the global integrated support community. With events held across 2 days, in 3 time zones, this celebration was put together...
by Peter Stuttard | Jul 10, 2024 | Analytics, Articles, Uncategorized
Download this article as a PDF “Read Euler: he is our master in everything”. (Pierre-Simon Laplace) Leonhard Euler (pronounced ‘Oiler’) was a Swiss mathematician (as well as being a physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and an engineer) who lived and worked in...
by Peter Stuttard | Jul 3, 2024 | Analytics, Articles, Supportability Engineering, Uncategorized
Download this article as a PDF “You can’t manage what you can’t measure” This quote from management guru Peter Drucker is not actually true. We manage a whole host of things that are difficult, if not impossible, to quantify – the effectiveness of a lot of...
by Hassen Nedhif | Mar 19, 2024 | Articles
Download this article as a PDF How does the rail industry organise its activities? The rail industry has a particular focus on customer service due to the massive and complex system that applies to it. These complex systems give an advantage to the manufacturer to...
by Ad min | Feb 6, 2024 | Articles, Uncategorized
Download this article as a PDF Moving Away from the Omniscience of Project Managers – the Road of the Business Analyst and Their Toolkit, Less Travelled… But what do they actually do? #businessanalysis I’ve shared my toolkit, what’s yours? How do you work...
by Kirstie Paul | Feb 1, 2024 | Articles
I’ve generally found business analysts (BAs) swimming in pools created by larger companies – those with reach over a few continents and with complicated systems. These companies have the benefit of people dedicated to understanding their business and...
by Kirstie Paul | Nov 1, 2023 | Articles
I started in IT in 1999 when the world was going to melt down because of Millennium or Y2K bug. For anyone young enough to not know, computing had only ever represented years with two digits, the year 2000 presented a challenge. IT was a busy place to be, there were...
by Lee Fitzsimons | Mar 16, 2019 | Articles, Supportability Engineering, Uncategorized
Download this article as a PDF It doesn’t seem that long ago, really, when I had to research the topic in order to prepare for a job interview. Though I’d worked in an environment that had (unbeknownst to me) been created with a reliability-centered...
by Lee Fitzsimons | Feb 18, 2019 | Articles
Download this article as a PDF Recently, I grew a beard. In truth, I go through cycles of it (the duration of those cycles tends to be governed by my wife’s patience) and the term ‘beard’ may be a little optimistic. But I grow enough facial hair to change the...
