by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 4, 2014 | General Thoughts and Rambles, Operations Centres, Ops
In advance of a blog post about how a technical team can make sure that it is working to back up an Ops team I have a few point to share. I used my MacBook Air and hadn’t figured out how to use a higher resolution (or how close to put my melon head to the...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 1, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, Incident Management, Operations Centres, Situational Awareness
In the previous article about Incident Mapping I covered off the main GIS integration bits – it’s about the map (not the GIS), it needs to be dead simple, the map is there for context (initially), layers (avoid!), and search. WHAT ABOUT MY INCIDENTS AND OTHER...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Dec 17, 2013 | General Thoughts and Rambles, Operations Centres
We’ve all seen some pretty insane technology projects – everything looks great at the outset but by the end (planned or actively terminated) of the project things have unraveled. The hard part is figuring out how. There are tomes of analysis of project...