productivity posts
- To Meet an Impossible Deadline, Cut the Time in Half
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A major consumer goods company told me last Tuesday that they wanted to put in a gift purchasing system. This involved a couple of roles (giver and receiver), a credit card gateway, Web services for fulfillment, email reminders, etc – a serious application. I would normally want about 6 weeks to build and test such […]
- Roadmapping - How Your Product Finds Its Way
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I think this is my most immediately useful post so far. It’s a technique that has helped me work with individual entrepreneurs, my own products, venture funded companies, and giant corporations.A startup will often live or die based on its first product release. Did it get released? Did people find it useful? […]
- Reuse, Reuse, Reuse
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A friend of mine used to say “that’s repetitive AND redundant”.
Three reasons why reuse is really important:
1) Customer awareness: Our enterprise prospects see reuse (in various forms, components, products, services) as a high-priority organizational mission, above open source. It was interesting that IBM saw reuse at the component level (not the app level) as the […]