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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 1997, he was recruited back to save the company from very poor public share price performance.
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Why “work time” reduction is futile
Running around after individuals with a stopwatch doesn’t get you to “done” faster