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Nic Brisbourne set this particular snowball rolling along, with his comments on one of my recent posts. I’d been talking about a future where increased commoditisation led to there being only one real sustainable differentiator, the customer experience. One of the things Nic said struck a chord with me. A discordant and jangly one. [And … Continue reading “On VCs and Products and Services: Another very provisional post”
Yesterday I ended my post with a quotation from Wikipedia on development hell, and that’s where I want to start today. There are many reasons why film (and software) projects go wrong, and they all have to do with the script. The script is central. When producers and directors are looking to attract talent into … Continue reading “On filmmaking and software development: Part 2”
A few months ago, I asked for feedback as to how I could improve this blog. I got a bunch of comments back, some visible, some as e-mail to me, some verbal. They seemed to fall into four main groups: (a) Could I include a mini-glossary of terms I regularly use, such as Because Of … Continue reading “Work in progress: Responding to feedback on improving this blog”
My two previous posts, looking at the reasons for deviance between management and engineer views of projects, attracted a number of comments, primarily in two camps. One camp spoke of Management-in-Denial, going into the reasons and contexts why an enterprise would behave that way, travelling into shareholder-versus-customer expectations along the way. A second camp looked … Continue reading “Continuing with musing on project management and communication”
I must have missed it the first time around, and only saw it via Boing Boing (thanks, Cory!). Reuters reported last Friday that “Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan“. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the story. Read it for yourself. Someone’s finally figured out that letting … Continue reading “Search and ye shall find”