Jahr: 2012

Jon Udell – Picture This: Hosted Lifebits in the Personal Cloud: “I want a service that will consolidate my digital photos and take care of them for generations to come, migrating them to new media and formats as the old ones go extinct. […] I want a service that will enable me to define an…

Gordon Skinner at techPortal – Agile Smells: “There are a number of problems, or ’smells‘, we have identified in the Agile process that could be having a negative impact on all your good intentions.” These are the ones I recognize from our Scrum practice: “Hit By A Bus”, “Fuzzy Definition Of Done”, “Anonymous Author’s Task”,…

Marco Arment – Learning from competition: “Reacting well to competition requires critical analysis of your own product and its shortcomings, and a complete, open-minded understanding of why people might choose your competitors. […] They’re choosing your competitors for good reasons, and denying the existence of such good reasons will only ensure that your product never…

The Lean Edge – Jean Cunningham: A lean leader celebrates disclosing problems and other people’s abilities to solve them: “A lean leader celebrates disclosing problems. A lean leader celebrates other people’s abilities to solve problems.” (Via Jason Yip.)

Alex Payne – How Not To Sell Software in 2012: “Basically, if a given software package or service isn’t free/open, it should be as easy as humanly possible to try it, pay for it, and start using it in production. If it isn’t easy to get started with your product, I’m going to find another…

Dave Winer – What I learned by turning off comments: “I hear that some people feel there’s a virtue in being silent. I don’t. I see it as selfishness. You’re willing to take but you’re not willing to give.”

Jack Vinson – People resist stupidity, not change: “If you see people as „resisting“ a change initiative, maybe they just see the immediate impact of the change as „stupid“ and not helping them in their goals to learn and grow. Refactor your thinking. Get into their heads – solve problems they actually have, rather than…

Seth Godin – “How’d it work out?”: “Doctors and consultants and builders are often hesitant to ask about how something worked long after the work is done. It feels like nothing but a chance to hear a complaint. It’s not. It’s a chance to show that you care. And a chance to learn how to…

Evan Sandhaus at New York Times Open – rNews is here. And this is what it means.: “On September 21, the IPTC and Schema.org officially announced their work together. So by October 2011, we had a supported standard for embedding publishing specific metadata into HTML documents. Now all we had to do was actually implement…

Pieter Hintjens – How to Design Perfect (Software) Products: Trash-Oriented Design: “Eventually, something resembling a working product makes it out of the door. It’s creaky and fragile, complex and ugly. The designers curse the engineers for their incompetence and pay more consultants to put lipstick onto the pig, and slowly the product starts to look…