Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

David Lieb – Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think: “Put your user in the middle of your flow. Make them press an extra button, make them provide some inputs, let them be part of the service-providing, rather than a bystander to it. If they are part of the flow,…

Derek Sivers – Seeking inspiration?: “The inspiration is not the receiving of information. The inspiration is applying what you’ve received. People think that if they keep reading articles, browsing books, listening to talks, or meeting people, that they’re going to suddenly get inspired. […] You have to pause the input, and focus on your output.”

Eric Smith – We are Principled: 6th Edition: “There are many reasons to practice the demo but one of the biggest benefit is catching missed requirements. I couldn’t list the number of times one team member would demonstrate a feature only to realize they had left something out or made a simple mistake, usually before…

Shanley Kane – How the Productivity Myth is Killing Your Startup: “You have to admire the insipid, dogged and naive devotion people have to believing they are going to get this huge of list of things done. […] All 10 projects are delivered late and half-assed. This is most sad for project number 4, which…

Alex Pukinskis – 3 Ways to Inspect and Adapt at Scale: “We’re all familiar with top-down change initiatives. Senior leadership gets together, analyzes the problem, designs a solution, and announces it. Everyone else is left to react. This approach leads to problems for two main reasons. First, people don’t know when change is going to…

A wonderful rant by David Gewirtz on ZDNet – My infuriatingly unsuccessful quest for a good media asset management tool: “There is a category called „Digital Asset Management“ out there as well. These are enterprise-level products, often Web-based. You can begin to tell they’ll be trouble because there’s no price for the product on the…

You’re my colleague, or my boss. I wish you would do something, and we both can agree that it’s a good thing to do. What does it take you to actually start doing it? Well, 1) you need to know about it, 2) you need to be able to do it, 3) you have to…