Christian Watson’s Elements of Design Showcase
Christian Watson has put together a Design Showcase with over 70 different elements. It’s a great reference when brainstorming and wireframing.
Continue reading...Software Curator
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Kris Jordan posted a summary of Jason Fried’s keynote speech “Be a Software Curator” from the Web 2.0 conference in New York last week. While I don’t always agree with Jason’s product philosophy completely I think he’s spot-on with regard to knowing when enough is enough on the number of features. “Take this water bottle, [...]
Continue reading...Andrew Chen’s Renewable Online Audiences
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Here is a presentation that Andrew Chen delivered at OATV that I’ve found very relevant. The presentation talks to the need for websites to grow a core audience that returns and returns again. Organizations that are chasing or counting on spikes in traffic for success are ultimately chasing ‘Fools Gold.’ In short, you can’t build [...]
Continue reading...The invisible hand grabs an iPhone
Sunday, July 27, 2008
[NOTE: I started this post months ago] I recently picked up an iPhone 3G and like many others experienced the pain of waiting in line for a few hours. As a product guy I appreciate the enormous effort and coordination required to pull off a product launch like this across multiple organizations but I was also fascinated [...]
Continue reading...Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma
Sunday, July 27, 2008
From the Wikipedia entry on Dogma “Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas, Greek δόγμα, plural δόγματα) is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, thought to be authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from.” Have you ever noticed that when it comes to development [...]
Continue reading...Site Update
Monday, July 21, 2008
I took a few hours yesterday and migrated from Drupal back to Wordpress. While Drupal is good platform, it was a bit overkill for my needs. Apologies to anyone that had their RSS sub behave weirdly. Interesting notes from the migration: It was actually difficult to find instructions online for the migration from Drupal to Wordpress [...]
Continue reading...NextAutos.com launches
Monday, June 16, 2008
After many months and countless hours of hard work we’ve finally launched NextAutos into the wild. An evolution of Winding Road Magazine, NextAutos is a new site for automotive enthusiasts. More to follow but thanks to everyone from nFusion and Rain City Studios for bringing it together.
Continue reading...Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin
Sunday, June 15, 2008
While I’ve been heads down on closing out a six-month project which launches on Monday, I’ve watched as Paul Young and team do a terrific job organizing and executing the first ProductCamp Austin. While I couldn’t participate I wanted to congratulate Paul and all the hard working folks who made it come together.
Continue reading...Another Brilliant Berkun Post
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Having consultant on my list of former titles I cannot agree more with the frustrations Scott describes here.
Continue reading...Product Camp Austin Venue
Monday, May 5, 2008
Thanks to Paul Young Product Camp Austin now has a venue, here are the details: When Saturday June 14th, 2008, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Where St. Edward’s University Professional Education Center (PEC) 9420 Research Blvd Echelon III Building Austin, Texas 78759 (512) 346-8110 ProductCampAustin
Continue reading...- Another Brilliant Berkun Post
- Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin
- Product Camp Austin Venue
- NextAutos.com launches
- Andrew Chen's Renewable Online Audiences
- The invisible hand grabs an iPhone
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- Dave McClure's Great SXSW presentation on Start-Up Metrics (0)
- Software Curator
- Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin
- Another Brilliant Berkun Post
- Product Camp Austin Venue
- ProductCamp Austin
- New Site: Ask Good Product Manager
- Arbitrary posts
- Great post by Jeff Lash on Goals over Features
- Generalized Scrum meetings for everyone
Now Reading
Planned books:
- Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod
Current books:
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The Death of Economics by Paul Ormerod
Recent books:
- Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior by Paul Ormerod
- Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series) by Mike Cohn
- Effective Prototyping for Software Makers (Interactive Technologies) by Jonathan Arnowitz
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam
- Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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