The secrets of a system integrator. My Journey of Startup, Product + Project Development
My last post about How to systemize and Automate any business was the starting point of something I want to write more about.
It was pointed out to me today that there’s not a lot out of actionable information out there about how entrepreneurs can systemize their business. More of a problem, entrepreneurs don’t know why they should keep systemizing a high priority.
I have some information on how to systemize any business. That’s a pretty crazy thing to say for some. But, I’ve been thrown down a lot of wells too and learnt a lot and keep learning more every day. Hear me out, let me know what you think, and test what I’m saying. It’ll help me clarify it even more.
I’m going answer one question in this post:
Why must you systemize as much as you email, breath, sleep and bathe?
Given that I’ve recently released some slides and material on building plugins / applications using the Mura FW/1 plugin, the demo gods continue to smile down on me, except in a good way this time.
One of the things I’m really liking about Mura is the number of very, very smart people who care about making Mura as easy and painless to use as possible to do amazing things. Many are developers who are outside of Blue River and it’s a testament to the team behind Mura as well the codebase.
The long and short of it is this: As we’re using Mura FW/1 plugin template, and plugins in general, we’re seeing some places we could enhance and have some benefit. One area is ensuring multiple Mura plugins can work and play side by side without little issue.
I had the chance to take part in a conversation with some of the Blue River team and a few of us heavy Mura Developers, and the result of that conversation was to implement a simple change to the official Mura FW/1 Plugin. There is a notable difference in the Mura FW/1 template moving forward should you download it moving forward from today: Instead of appending an ?action=CfcName.FunctionName, the action has been expanded to be [packagename]action=CFCname.FunctionName.
Look out information hoarders. Knowledge isn’t power, applying knowledge is power. 15 years of being thrown down many problem solving wells is about to rain down some cold hard facts!
So, you have a business. Like any business, you need answers from every system in your business. The funny part? Every business wants the same answer from their data.
WHERE IS EVERYTHING AT?
That’s all anyone cares to know. On demand. Get good at it and there’s a future for you.
Automatically presenting this answer through systemizing is what I do as a Systems Integrator. I first make it simple to use what you click and read. Then under the covers, the complexity of what you do is busy working away for you 24/7.
If you’re looking for for meaty, applicable experience, here’s the first post in hopefully many. If more software was built like this, or better, we wouldn’t have so much bad, time consuming, hard to use software.
I had the pleasure of presenting at MuraCon 2011 last week in Sacramento, California. It was nice to put a face to so many names and get to know the Blue River Team behind Mura CMS much better, and start so many new friendships.
I presented two main Plugin topics for designers, developers and managers.
Why Plugins are important not just for you, but Mura,
How easy Plugins are to build for Mura using FW/1.