How many times have you said: “Oh yeah, I forgot about that requirement…” or “I think we talked about that a couple of weeks ago, but nobody added it to the project tracker?” Here are some indicators that there is work that you need to do that is not captured in your current project management [...]
A new site called ohours has set up a web app that handles appointments for creating office hours. I’m generally interested in catching up with old friends and meeting new people, so figured I’d give it a spin. Here is my ohours profile. You can subscribe to be alerted when I post a new office [...]
Apparently it’s tough to find good technical cofounders and early stage employees for your company, at least based on recent blog posts. I thought I’d post a bunch of those links to discuss some of the main points people have been making. Here’s my summary of the posts below. My thoughts The key consideration in [...]
This post was inspired by Jared Brown’s recent gamification comic and reading the temporarily popular Gamification is Bullshit article, and my recent startup experience. Research At the startup that I just worked at (RewardSnap), we decided to create a game to encourage people to do crowdsourcing of deal ratings. Instead of just crafting a game [...]
If you have things you want to write about, I’ll make a case against keeping a large backlog. Immediacy and Inspiration It’s more useful to write about experiences at a recent conference right now instead of two months from now. The time delay not only dampens memory, it also weakens excitement. It definitely helps to [...]
At the May 2011 Indy.rb meetup, I suggested creating a survey to figure out what versions of Ruby people were using, and what testing stacks they use and would like to use. I created this survey and tweeted it out, and was impressed with the results! Over a hundred people filled out the information, from [...]
If you read through this post, you’ll see some sweet pictures and figure out a potential new way to get cookies and brownies. I got together with Alex Toumey, Kyle Shipley and Wes Winham on April 16 for an event practicing lean startup concepts. We started off by pitching ideas that we thought were interesting [...]
