I was just reading Apps, Gaps and Equilibrium: Businesses and IT are facing a world of Apps, where the supply of technology vastly exceeds business demand or IT’s capacity to implement, integrate and operate. The world of apps is a…
I was just reading Apps, Gaps and Equilibrium: Businesses and IT are facing a world of Apps, where the supply of technology vastly exceeds business demand or IT’s capacity to implement, integrate and operate. The world of apps is a…
Sometimes the simplest problem we solve so effortlessly takes quite a bit effort to solve using programming. However, thinking through the steps (and actually implementing) was worthwhile. It taught me a lot more about the problem and made explicit many…
This was a fascinating excerpt to read. Following this fragment of the discussion that took place more than 70 years ago required some thinking. Here is some context: It is not difficult to imagine a mind to which the sequence…
As a Product Manager, your job is to document and clarify and share every bit of thinking with the rest of the team. It is not just the spec, but how it evolves, why it evolves the way it does,…
I am currently reading 42 Rules of Product Management. It is a great read and I highly recommend that you buy it. Notes: It is product management’s responsibility to identify customer problems worth solving. It is engineering’s role to identify…
I assume, you know, why you want to find an influencer. I actually don’t like that term “influencer” and would like to use some synonyms like evangelist, thought leader, expert, expert blogger/columnist, curator. So let us say we want to…
Once in a while you follow a strange word or phrase and end up learning something entirely different like this one from Big Think : A body of running water may be called any of many different names, the most…
I was talking to three different groups of people, this week. I realized that in each case, I was giving them some tips, talking to them about some tools. Suddenly I had this Aha moment. What if I created a…
From the introduction of Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers: The basic problem with browsers is that they’re manual tools. Your browser only downloads and renders websites: You still need to decide if the web page is relevant, if you’ve already…
I was reading an article on Scientific American a couple of days ago. It is about the problem of how information overload affects the work of Scientists. Information overload is an interesting topic, so I read the story with fascination.…
