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The Power of the Right Process
In this video, you will find out How it’s possible to build a 100 mpg car in 3 months How iterative product development with short cycles is much more powerful Why agile, lean, and scrum work outside of software development When developing software, nailing down the right process is a hard problem to solve. In…
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Dependency Inversion in the Business Of Software
Assumptions can be expensive, particularly if they lead you to the wrong conclusions. One popular assumption is particular particularly expensive: dependencies are minimal, or inconsequential. Interestingly enough, the business world is only starting to discover what we have known for decades as software developers. Loosely coupled systems, whether in code or in business units, are much…
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The Magic of Modularity
If you’re thinking of creating a new product, you don’t want to wait a week. Especially in the early days, when you need to make up your mind about what the product is. The fastest way to speed up testing? Delegate tests and run them in parallel. The financial value of low granularity tests which…
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Discover a new spaghetti sauce, and make $600 million
Malcolm Gladwell: Happiness, marketing and spaghetti sauce In this video, you will see Malcolm Gladwell describe: How to discover a previously undiscovered niche Why consumers and clients may say they want one thing, but not realize they actually want (and are willing to pay for) another Why the supermarket shelf went from 2 types of…
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Achieve Faster Time To Market With Modularity
One of the key reasons scrum and agile have become increasingly popular is that Agile enables you to get to market faster. Faster time to market changes the game. If you understand why this compression of time works, you will be able to compress it even further. Agile shortens the fuzzy front end. Iterative development…
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The one thing Steve Jobs did that turned around Apple
After a nasty battle with Apple shareholders, Steve Jobs, then the original founding CEO, was ousted. He went on to create NeXt computers (later acquired by Disney). In the meantime, Apple drifted as a company. It proliferated product lines. Lost focus. And the share price entered a death spiral phase. A few years later in…
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Why “work time” reduction is futile
Running around after individuals with a stopwatch doesn’t get you to “done” faster