I am reading “Made To Stick” at the moment which has actually been a very interesting read. I will write a full summary of the key points in another post but there was one big idea that really stuck with me. Find the core idea Finding the core means stripping the idea down to its [...]
How To Make Ideas Stick In Two Easy Steps
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May 5th, 2010
A Shorter Working Day – The Power Of Balance
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April 21st, 2010
A lot people seem to think that the longer the hours you work the more important you are. I whole-hearted disagree with this. It is very easy to waste 12 hours inventing tasks, browsing the web, playing games or chatting online. If you are super efficient and productive, if you do not get distracted and [...]
Fixed Price vs Daily Rate – Lessons Learned From Agile Scrum
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April 14th, 2010
If you are involved in quoting for software projects you have to make sure that you estimate each job correctly or you could find that a job quickly becomes unprofitable. In reality it is very hard to estimate as you rarely have a defined technical spec and requirements are constantly changing. Often the scope creep, [...]
Share Your Ideas – But Only To The Right People
April 7th, 2010I have been reading a few articles recently that are advising people not be so secretive with their business ideas. They advise sharing ideas with as many people as you can to get feedback, advice and to give you the chance to hone your elevator pitch. I think that this has merit BUT it also [...]
Worry About Scaling Later Just Build Your Product
March 31st, 2010Just a short post today as there is not a lot to say on this topic. I think too many start-ups worry far too much about scaling. My advice would be to just get your product built and worry about scaling later, if you have scaling problems it is a nice problem to have as [...]
Explosive Development – From Idea To Protoype In One Week
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March 24th, 2010
A couple of years ago I heard Obie Fernandez (from Hash Rocket) talking about rapid prototype development and that sparked a huge interest in me. Ever since I have been investigating and involved in rapid software prototyping and have learned a lot of lessons through experience, trial and error. In the last year I have [...]
The Problem With Unsupported Software For Businesses
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March 22nd, 2010
Recently I have been trialling some content management systems for some very small websites that do not warrant custom development. I have looked at some of the big players like Expression Engine, Joomla, etc as well a lot of others. In the end I found one that I really liked the look of, it seemed [...]
When Did Failure Become Desirable?
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March 17th, 2010
I have been reading some books and blogs recently and I have come across a recurring theme of failure: Fail fast Fail often Aim for failure Fail in order to learn from your failure Listening to some people at events recently it almost feels like people are aiming to fail! Almost like it is a [...]
Start Up Business Phases – Early Stage, Seed Stage to Rapid Growth
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March 10th, 2010
I have been consulting recently with some start ups that have all at different stages in their development cycle. Something that I have found some business founders overlook is that your strategy, approach and focus need to change depending on the phase your business is in. Typically you would classify your business into the following: [...]
Django Developers and Coders
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March 10th, 2010
If you are a Django developer check out Django Foo, I have been writing some posts on there recently with the rest of my team. Everytime we solve a problem that is not well documented we post our solutions on there. It has started to become a really good resource for the community.
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