Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

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…

Seth Godin – The future of the library: „There are one thousands things that could be done in a place like this, all built around one mission: take the world of data, combine it with the people in this community and create value. We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need…

Seth Godin – Brand exceptionalism: „Brand humility is the only response to a fast-changing and competitive marketplace. The humble brand understands that it needs to re-earn attention, re-earn loyalty and reconnect with its audience as if every day is the first day.“

Joshua Duhl – The 13 Areas of Cost for a DAM System: „In almost every successful DAM installation (hosted or not) that I am aware of has 1-3 people (depending on the size and breadth of the organization) who is/are the DAM “master(s)” – more than a librarian or governance provider for the assets, this…