tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688599.post6960085428636198055..comments2023-10-12T04:54:05.108-07:00Comments on Deep Freeze 9: A music/governance metaphorJP (Pierre) de Vrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02311009024575927588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688599.post-37837108622164955852010-03-10T10:54:57.865-08:002010-03-10T10:54:57.865-08:00Thanks, Karl. I'd be fascinated to learn more ...Thanks, Karl. I'd be fascinated to learn more about your thinking regarding IT services governance.JP (Pierre) de Vrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02311009024575927588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688599.post-64477255425092153372010-03-09T07:34:20.888-08:002010-03-09T07:34:20.888-08:00Fantastic. I've been struggling with describin...Fantastic. I've been struggling with describing needs for stronger IT services governance, and I believe this metaphor holds up very well. Thanks for taking the time to draw out the metaphor in such detail.Karl Mattsonhttp://www.target.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688599.post-57872735097253378342009-12-28T05:28:17.867-08:002009-12-28T05:28:17.867-08:00Pierre, your use of metaphor is helpful, allowing ...Pierre, your use of metaphor is helpful, allowing us to consider the implications of governance through another lens. <br /><br />And your application of musical theory is apt. To take a common example, the choice of keys isn't very important for the piano (although my piano teacher says that Chopin would sometimes pick a key based on the possible fingering) but very important for a string instrument like a guitar, where "open" strings provide a different resonant than fingered notes.<br /><br />There's one implication that particularly strikes my (musical) fancy. In Mozart's time, the usual practice of musicians was to improvise off of the written score. Later, it was said that Franz List played a piece best when he played it first; because the first time was the only time he wrote it as the composer intended. So, improvisation might, or might not, improve a composition but what it did do was this -- join the composer and musician in a collaboration of creativity. That tradition has largely disappeared from classical music (some would say that it moved to jazz where improvisation is central). To me, the role of improvisation is a metaphor for the similar role of policymakers operating under an organic statute or officials like administrative law judges applying principles articulated by an agency like the FCC. (As you say this can also be seen as application of common-law reasoning). <br /><br />In a world of change and uncertainty, discretion is an important tool; discretion that is applied by professionals (like trained musicians), within guidelines (like the old rule against using augmented fourths) but that calls upon the expertise of the composer and the performer both to work, as it were, in harmony. <br /><br />Jon SalletAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com