Author: karljeffery

One of our theories is that the people who develop expertise fastest in a certain situation are the people  with a “stake” in it. As an extreme example – if you are in a physical fight with someone, you can potentially be in a lot of pain, so you learn very fast. As a more…

Hi there are many angles showing how Software for Domain Experts could have contributed to avoiding Brexit: 1) There are many comments that people running the EU are ‘out of touch’. So they need better situation awareness. Can well modelled software help here? Probably 1b) Software could be used by government to model a much…

A major theme of Software for Domain Experts is that you need a domain expert to understand a situation. That is perhaps a definition of an expert – someone who understands a situation, the cause and effect (what leads to what) and how to influence the cause to get the effect you want. Gaining expertise…

Here’s an interesting question – what kind of software can best support the individuals who have to make governance decisions – ie our politicians, council leaders? How do you set about answering such a question? There are a lot of reports studied about all kinds of issues of policy. Senior politicians probably don’t get time…

Business process management is a mature subject – many clever people have thought about it, developed consultancies around it, written books on it, implemented ‘business process management’ projects. But the software for BPM – as far as we have seen – is usually pretty rigid. Most BPM software projects  are built around a relational database…

Transport for London has just stopped providing its simple bus mobile app which told you when the bus is about to come – and forced everyone to try to work with a much more complex one. In the words of one commenter on an online website run by Transport for London, the new website “needs…

It is conventional for people writing blogs or books, or asking for people to listen to them, to try to make out how much they know. I know this, I’ve learned this, so listen to me. It makes sense, who would want to listen to someone who doesn’t know very much. But that goes a…

The big theme of politics in the EU and US at the moment is populism – which basically means, we don’t trust the people who lead us – and we’re looking for a leader which seems to think more like we do – and we’re feeling pretty defensive and angry. So we vote for Donald…

Here’s our idea to describe to people in the software world what experts – or people who have to work or ‘use’ the software – would ideally think like – like a seafarer. The same today or thousands of years ago, above all the seafarer needs situation awareness. There’s 3 key things – the weather…

All of our discussion here is really about working out how to reduce the costs of providing software for expert / professional users. There are no techologically original ideas here, in that an expert user with unlimited budget can have whatever software they want and always has been able to. There probably are examples of…