Thursday, January 24, 2002
Joel on Software - Rub a dub dub: "It was designed as a prototype, an experiment, a learning exercise, a way to go from zero to IPO in nine months, or a one-off demo"
More good words from Joel. Love FogBugz. Recommend it for every project. But there's an even better answer for prototypes, experiments, or one-off demos: don't code 'em in the first place. I'll post a story some other time, perhaps, and the fantastic power of using PowerPoint for prototyping.
An extremely abridged version of my leukemia story was just posted on The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Life Mosaic site.
Just got the coffee mug for one-click subscriptions, although I doubt anybody's gonna be aggregating my news anytime soon.
Still, it's cool to simply add functionality like this.
I put mine above the Radio badge, since I didn't like the look of two XML images stacked on top of one another.
Also from Gartner: Survey on Managing Information.
Talks about information overload, and, to a certain degree, the value of non-technology driven knowledge sharing. You pick up the phone and call somebody, or you walk down the hall.
From the Gartner Group: Best Practices for Knowledge-Based Innovation.
- Treat knowledge, information and people as strategic assets
- Build intellectual capital value measures into management accounts
- Develop an innovation-friendly culture
- Align innovation objectives with individual and team objectives
Copyright 2002 © Robert K. Brown
