Autor: Tim Strehle

Enterprise Search Blog – Autonomy marketing, meet HP: „But now, in the second decade of the not-so-new century, customers expect to use a GUI to configure, manage, and customize enterprise search; and just about all of IDOL is still ‚command line based‘. […] Sure, they’ve added dozens of new capabilities… API calls, and the like……

Seth Godin – Twice as much doesn’t always mean twice as much: „The challenge, of course, is that twice as much of your time or money is irrelevant. Who cares where you started? The correct comparison is to what the competition is investing, and how well.“

Jeff Sutherland on Scrum/Agile – Ten Year Agile Retrospective: How We Can Improve In The Next Ten Years: „Industry data shows that fixing bugs on the same day as they are discovered will double the velocity of a team. […] Traditional project management assumes that users know what they want before software is built. As…

Douglas Crockford in his book JavaScript: The Good Parts: „Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. The more features there are, the more likely one will develop problems or will interact badly with another. In software systems, there is a storage…

Jack Vinson – What are you solving?: „Instead of pushing the tool/widget/change, figure out how it will make their problems go away. Be as specific as possible here, because it is the specific problems that people want to solve. Of course, you aren’t done when you link your change to their problems. You need to…

Caridy Patino at the Yahoo! User Interface Blog – Making Search Direct Accessible: „Search Direct also features a content panel, a.k.a. the rich panel, where suggestion-related content is displayed. The intention of the rich panel is to provide a direct answer to the user when a suggestion from the autocomplete list is selected.“

Aloha Editor: „The world’s most advanced browser HTML5 based WYSIWYG editor lets you experience a whole new way of editing. It’s faster than existing technologies and offers unprecedented WYSIWYG functionalities.“ (Via Henri Bergius.)

Naresh Sarwan at Digital Asset Management News – Will Adobe Provide The Edge For DAM?: „Following the release of Adobe Flex 3 in 2007, many DAM vendors made some investment into Flex/Flash, but many also quickly retreated from releasing their full product strategies for Flex due to the spiralling costs and complexities encountered when any…

Seth Godin – When the truth is just around the corner: „When your organization has a chance to see itself as its customers do, do your leaders crowd around, trying to glean every insight they can about the story and your future, or do they prefer the status quo?“

Seth Godin – Responsibility and authority: „There’s a different approach, though, one that’s based on responsibility instead of authority. „Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.“