Lean Startups, Demystified
Today, I gave a presentation at the ALM Summit at Microsoft called Lean Startups, Demystified. The slides are below. After the presentation, I was speaking with an audience member and realized that I...
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Thoughts on Getting What I Want
I am a “pleaser”. Not a total pleaser, but I don’t like to let other people down, so I say “yes” to things when I should probably consider whether or not I’m really committed to them. In other words,...
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Wisdom Learned Ski Boot Shopping
Those who know me know I love a good, pithy saying. A pithy saying is like a picture…you know, a picture says a thousand words. Ha! Isn’t that funny…that’s a recursively meta pithy saying! On...
View ArticleAccountability Partners Help You Get What You Want
The entire post I wrote the other day on how to get what I want was supposed to be about accountability partners, but I wandered of into pontification land, and never seemed to get to that point. What...
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Kanban in the 5th Grade
Check it out! I was at my kids’ school today, and saw that my son’s 5th grade class is using a Kanban board for their class newspaper. Each row is a student, each card is a story, and each column is a...
View ArticleWhat does repeatedly making a “bad hire” mean?
Chatting with a friend yesterday, the subject came up of a position at his company which has been a revolving door of seemingly “bad hires”. The question driving our discussion was: why? I worked at...
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Ten Traits of the Best Managers
This afternoon I read an article called 9 Hidden Qualities of Stellar Bosses, which I’ll list below. Plus, I’ll add my own, to make it 10. 1. They forgive… and they forget. Great bosses are able to...
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Refreshing and Awesome Candor and Honesty
I have now been part of two or three dotcom booms, and Groupon has been a darling of the most recent—a genuine cultural phenomena. That being said, things haven’t been going well for the company as of...
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INME Friday: Jennifer Hudson Steals The Oscars
From last week’s Oscars, just listen to this voice. Even if you don’t love this kind of music, simply appreciate the strength and power. Note: I couldn’t figure out how to embed the video in this...
View ArticleThe Mixup: Standups vs. Status Meetings
It bugs me when people refer to a “status meeting” as a “standup”. It probably shouldn’t because it’s only semantics, but I’m a language nerd, what can I say? I’m hoping we can nip this loose use of...
View ArticleSix Years of Code
The Programmer’s Programmer, a.k.a. @NotMyself, a.k.a Bobby Johnson somehow made this neat visualization of all the code that has been written at Cheezburger. I’m not sure how he did it, or what it...
View ArticleThe Inside Scoop on Snowfall, the Four Minute Mile of Online Story Telling
Snowfall is the shiznit. In my business, I’m fascinated by it and everybody is talking about it. Let me tell you what they’re saying. I don’t claim to have every inside scoop, but here’s what I’ve...
View ArticleIn Defense of Conference Going: SXSW 2013
I am completely in agreement with Suster on the risk of becoming a conference ho. MTV’s old motto was Too Much is Never Enough. Do not think of conference attendance like that. Too much can be way...
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Is Veronica Mars a New Business Model for Media?
Wowzers! In less than a day, the The Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter project has raised over a million dollars. As of this writing, it was at $1,298,921 pledged of $2,000,000 goal. I have no doubt...
View ArticleThe Best Developer Team Structure
On my SXSW 2013 post, Scott Schwartz left a comment asking: You ran out of time in your SXSW session before some of us…were able to hear about what a good DEV dept structure looks like and how it...
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