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CHM Live | Bill Gates and Patrick Collison: In Conversation at CHM
youtube.comWhen you’re evolving you need to understand the quintessential things that define your product. What’s key to your feature set and your branding? What have you trained the customer to look for? With the iPod it was the click wheel.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Bryce Roberts describing Soleio:
The "culture of Soleio” seems to contain a bunch of contradictions — care for craft with an obsession for speed. A clearly massive ambition coupled with a desire to be a “trim boat” that can be lean and focused.
The most compelling argument4 comes from Marty Cagan, who says: Instead of using one prototyper for a few weeks, [most organizations] use the full engineering team for full release cycles to build the software that is then QA’ed and deployed into production systems. This is why it typically takes so many companies three or more releases over one to
... See moreRian van der Merwe • Making It Right: Product Management For A Startup World
My first proposal is that each software organization must determine and proclaim that great designers are as important to its success as great managers are, and that they can be expected to be similarly nurtured and rewarded. Not only salary, but the perquisites of recognition—office size, furnishings, personal technical equipment, travel funds, st
... See moreFrederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
SCREENING FOR THE RIGHT KIND OF AMBITION