Month: February 2012
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How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did – Forbes
Lean Startup advocates like myself are fond of letting the numbers drive the business. I found this amusing… How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did via How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did – Forbes.
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Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions – Forbes
Nice summary, Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions The only three true job interview questions are: 1. Can you do the job? 2. Will you love the job? 3. Can we tolerate working with you? via Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions –…
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Getting the Most Out of QR Codes Using URI Schemes
A really interesting article on QR codes. I am not sure how many people ever actually use them. Certainly my HTC did not come with a bar code reader on it. One of my customers ran an ad with 20,000 copies and got 6 scans. But if you are willing to assume that your user…
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BBC News – Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’
More worthy of Stalin than Trudeau The Canadian government has been accused of “muzzling” its scientists. via BBC News – Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’.
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Londroid RNIB workshop – other blog posts
Other posts relevant to this weekend’s workshop Android: Ice Cream Sandwich Accessibility photo of a winner I will add more links to this page as they emerge.
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Accessible Software – the Consultant’s version
This my personal blog rather than my company blog. Professionally, I help organisations implement process changes, particularly in the areas of project and process management. The indulgence of a personal blog is that I can present my views in a more straightforward style however my last post drew negative comments from part of its intended…
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Accessible software – somebody pays
Today I went to the Londroid (London Android) Office RNIB Hackathon that was sponsored by Blue Via. The goal was to help app developers to learn more about the needs of blind people. This was a great event and I would like to thank everyone who made it possible and the kind people from the…
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Lean software development: Minimum Marketable Feature and Minimum Viable Product
In an earlier post I talked about Eric Reis’ game changing book The Lean Start-up and Minimum Viable Product. This excellent blog post from Jeff Patton provides another layer of detail. [Agile] Stories must be minimal marketable features The term “minimal marketable feature” was first used in the book Software by Numbers. This book placed…
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The difference between “policy” and “strategy”
I am writing a book on project management (ElephantPM) and I have been looking for a succinct explanation of the difference between “policy” and “strategy”. The project management function itself is operational (project managers have line managers and do the same thing everyday) and is governed by the organization’s Project Management Policy. However, projects themselves…
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Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed
I am interested in Amazon’s new NoSQL database DynamoDB. We develop Android applications and a core requirement is scalable session management. This seems to be a primary use of DynamoDB. Dynamo was born out of our need for a highly reliable, ultra-scalable key/value database. This non-relational, or NoSQL, database was targeted at use cases that…
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