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by dreamfactored 9y ago
So you would hard couple your architecture to your current org structure?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
It's why we always do rightsizing and never numerical estimates. You can calculate delivery dates by counting stories * average story time - very fast, very simple, and amusingly at least as accurate as detailed time estimates. Has an
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Become a highly sought after specialist for a product offering (e.g. self-driving cars, blockchain, fintech), or get ownership (startup), or go customer facing (particularly if commission involved), or go into technical management on CTO ro
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
How long you can continue operations if sales drops off a cliff is a very important number for every company I've worked at, from startups to big multinationals. Maybe it's less of a consideration for Amazon and Apple but I wouldn
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Yep Kanban is the way to go, focus on flow, small batch sizes, reducing waste of wait times and handovers. Look at cumulative flow and rightsize stories instead of fretting over estimation, points, burndown, and all that mini waterfall tha
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
I've been lucky enough to be on projects where it's done well (not scrum) and would never go back after working that way.
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
isn't the killer app for btc tax evasion and laundering? isn't this how wealthy chinese are getting money out of the country and how russians are routing around sanctions? is the rise in btc therefore perhaps related to paradise p
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Agile is like dieting, simple but hard and requiring a lot of discipline. Very very few companies are any good at it but done well, it's a complete transformation.
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
>"Are their development teams seen as cost centers, or profit centers?" It's not a matter of opinion, but what the term means. They are cost centers unless they are closing sales (or being billed for about 3x what they cos
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Many countries have big internal variations within areas, just as much as between other countries - by your logic why is it not just as necessary to have separate currencies for California, Southern Italy etc? London, New York, Shanghai, Pa
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
> folks The subset who have CS degrees maybe
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
re the cold call/mail outreach - 1. You need to be contacting individuals not generic addresses or gatekeepers ('people buy from people') 2. You need to be explaining the value to them or people like them that they can identi
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Sales is about discovering what people's real problems are and helping them find a solution. It's the polar opposite of inauthenticity, but there are an awful lot of clueless salespeople who are trying to live up to the stereotype
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
I used to have this same idea. I changed it when I looked into the costs of outsourcing sales vs outsourcing dev. Market rates are around 80:20 sales vs dev when outsourcing. That should tell you something about where money is made and wher
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Yep agree 100%. It's amazing how bad the general standards are in sales. A lot of people cargo culting off sales as portrayed in the movies and doing the opposite of what they should. Maybe it should be taught in schools.
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Many of the best sales people are introverted. It can be a very strong advantage when you need to ask insightful questions, actively listen, and project integrity. Strong extroverts can be very weak in those areas and many would kill for th
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Second this
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Yes. Until wages are globally normalised that's good news for Myanmar, bad news for Italy. Italy better make something that is more than a product of sheer labour and raw materials - and that's the definition of design. I think pe
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
I've had exactly that conversation with a few. You'd be surprised how many are serious collectors who invest in watches. That doesn't work with fakes. That whole Rolex culture is also a deliberate part of how they sniff out f
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
I have expensive shirts and cheap ones. Definitely a tangible difference in look and feel, but some of my most functional are a cheap range from uniqlo which don't need any ironing and use good cotton. Unfortunately you are usually pay
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
It's about design, and design is inherently about quality and value. It's the reason you might choose to pay more for a handmade Italian shirt made in a small workshop that has been running forever compared to a mass-produced one
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
The business guys who are into watches tend to have a good look at each others, talk watch collecting for a while, and can usually tell fakes.
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
In most countries you have no right not to be photographed (by anyone) when in public (by definition being in public is not being in private). I fully support this with the exception of the homeless (and I think it does somewhat support the
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
>But imagine even thinking about forming something like react.js or tensorflow. Unless you have very strong motivation it would be very discouraging to even start. See Linux
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Do you use slack? You seem to be criticising the thing that slack is really good at. The postpone workflow is to switch alerts off, can be done on schedule for when you are not at work and manually for meetings etc. And it allows you to fin
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
The killer feature of slack is that alerts are highly configurable and work properly across devices - it lets you eliminate unnecessary and duplicated alerts
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Yep they could have a lot of fun gaming with it for breaking news, sports results, deep analysis pieces etc. Could even personalise what gets charged to who depending on core obsessions (this proof of insight would be huge with advertisers
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
do any of these publishers have paywalls for specific premium articles rather than x articles per week? presumably they could a/b and tweak more that way
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
iOS 11 still does this (unless I'm hacked)
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
US and UK publishing businesses are radically different in subscription revenues. They have traditionally made up a tiny proportion for UK publishers.

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