Autor: Tim Strehle

Chade-Meng Tan – Do the right thing, wait to get fired: „I recently learned that one reason he was so successful was because he was unafraid to speak the unpleasant truth to his superiors to their faces.“ (Via Brian Fitzpatrick.)

Stijn Debrouwere – The trouble with usability experts: „Some engineers make unusable software because they’re clueless about interaction design. Many others just make unusable software because we don’t give them enough time to do a proper job. Hiring a usability expert won’t solve that.“

Natasha Gabriel – Content marketing is not enough — The fulfillment gap: „Too many companies focus on the on the point of sale as the key milestone, doing everything they can to close a sale. This is a flawed mindset. Instead of just trying to get money from customers, companies need to focus on getting…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – Marketing to your own team: „It’s a good lesson: You’re not just sending out a message externally, you’re sending one out internally too. If your employees don’t believe it, the whole plan falls apart.“

Tim Bray – Reading Feeds: „Speed and polish and good defaults win; how many times do we have to re-learn this?“

Gojko Adzic on a presentation by Michael Feathers – The Mistake at the Heart of Agile: „Both scrum and XP had the same organisation context – protecting the development organisation from the rest of the business. […] Keith Braithwaite said these ideas were implemented to give developers “a safe place to work” in the face…

George Reese at O’Reilly Community – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs: „The data in your API calls should not look like highly normalized representations of database tables. They should represent a model of the data in a way that makes sense to API consumers. When you map APIs to your…

Seth Godin – Caring: „If you want to build a caring organization, you need to fill it with caring people and then get out of their way.“

Jack Vinson – No multitasking for teams either: „[Geoffrey] Moore mentioned a common problem of companies: they ask project teams to focus on more than one thing at a time, and that this kills the team’s capability to do anything well. […] You get the picture: each project has to be focused on one goal.…

Gojko Adzic – Bug statistics are a waste of time: „A frequent excuse for bug reports is that the management needs them to know the current quality status. […] Alan Weiss explained that nicely in Million Dollar Consulting: „Quality, I patiently explain, is not the absence of something in management’s eyes, that is, defects, but…