In a recent McKinsey study, most organizations (63%) are currently investing in Web Services. Interestingly enough, very few of these same companies (4%) saw Mashups as something they were investing in:
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Our team spends quite a bit of time around plans, schedules and status. This is mainly a big company problem, but every organization I have worked in needs more rigor around their work. The typical lifecycle of project management is as follows:
BIG BANG –> BEATINGS –> WHIMPERING DEATH
Let me explain. Every project starts with a [...]
Having spent the last three days at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, I have seen a lot of companies. There are some great ideas and some rather foolish ones, but what has struck me is the power of simplicity.
I am not talking about simplicity in the usual context of User Experience (UI). We [...]
As I mentioned, I was at the Under the Radar Conference a few weeks back. At that time, it became obvious that Twitter is a phenomenom. The real question is, why?
Twitter is a simple app where you answer the question “what are you doing?”. It ends up being a log of your life [...]
