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Amazappos.com
This morning, I stumbled upon a New York Times article announcing that purchase of Zappos.com by the behemoth that is Amazon.com (I’ve owned shares in Amazon.com for over 10 years). From the article:...
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No Good Deed
Let’s say that the system engineering culture at your hierarchically structured corpo org is such that virtually all work products handed off (down?) to hardware, software and test engineers are...
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Netflix Culture
I’m constantly scouring the landscape for companies with cultures that stand apart from the herd (moooo!). Via my e-friend Byron Davies’ discovery, I’ve just added another gem to my list: Netflix....
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Favorite Companies
Over the years, I’ve been on a constant watch for unique companies. By unique, I mean those that stand apart from the rest of the herd in the way that the executive leadership balances the needs of all...
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Best Of The Best
The breadth of variety of companies, markets, customers, industries, products, and services in the world is so wide and diverse that it can be daunting to develop objectively measurable criteria for...
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The DORK Is Born
Unlike upstanding citizens, I’m both internally and externally verbally weird. For example, I think that when a proven, in-the-trenches, problem-solving, core worker jumps ship to another org it often...
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From Consumer To Participant
As I’ve stated before, I love Clay Shirky. The guy is phenomenally perceptive and insightful in detecting subtle changes in global trends and patterns of behavior. In “Cognitive Surplus”, Mr. Shirky...
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Self-Assessment
“I’m just an ordinary average guy….. Pick up the dog doo, hope that it’s hard (woof woof).” – Joe Walsh Okee Dokee. Today is my birthday and it’s self-assessment time. Time to step back and guess who I...
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Five Levels
According to Russell Ackoff, there are five types of conceptual content. In order of increasing scarcity, they are Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom. Data and information answer...
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Four Attributes
Assume that every commercial enterprise can be “objectively” (LOL!) characterized by the following four discrete attributes: Trustworthiness [untrustful | trustful] Transparency [closed | open]...
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The Last Retrospective
In an ongoing agile endeavor, the practice for eliciting and applying freshly learned knowledge going forward is the periodic “retrospective” (aka periodic post-mortem to the “traditional” old fogeys)....
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It’s All About That Jell
Agile, Traditional, Lean, Burndown Charts, Kanban Boards, Earned Value Management Metrics, Code Coverage, Static Code Analysis, Coaches, Consultants, Daily Standup Meetings, Weekly Sit Down Meetings,...
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