Congratulations to the entire team on the launch of www.WindingRoad.com 3.0. I’ll be commenting over the next few weeks on some of the lessons learned from the previous site and the ‘reset’ that 3.0 represents.
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Here are excerpts from this article that discusses two types of technical debt
“The first kind of technical debt is the kind that is incurred unintentionally. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job. In some cases, this kind of debt can be incurred unknowingly, for example, your company might acquire a company that has accumulated significant technical debt that you don’t identify until after the acquisition.
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Here is a presentation of Colin Powell’s leadership principles that I’ve always found these leadership principles to be insightful.
Lesson 1
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
Lesson 2
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Lesson 3
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world
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Here is a quote from Getting to Plan B, “The research on new product success and failure indicates that it takes fifty-eight new product ideas to deliver a single successful new product.” I’m reading this book from by John Mullins and Randy Komisar and find it interesting so far. The fundamental premise of the book is that businesses do not succeed with their original business model but rather an iteration of the original. This parallels the recent trends/fads in lean business/product/software.
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Another great post from Tyner Blain, this time on SEO Product Management. While many consider SEO to be some variant of Voodoo, Scott provides a good foundation on SEO with a Product Management perspective.
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Inc Magazine has an article on ‘Lean Product Development’, an emerging business philosophy that has recently gained a lot of momentum. Applying lean concepts to product management is the latest in the application of lean manufacturing to software development over the last few years.
While a Lean Product Development, evangelized by Eric Ries and Steve Blank, appears to be the latest business fad it has several key concepts that apply to any business. The Minimal Viable Product and Steve Blank’s Customer Development concepts are really common sense elements that many organization’s, large and small, ignore. Definitely check it out.
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