Evgeny Morozov: The IGod: Steve Jobs’s Pursuit Of Perfection—and The Consequences. Steve Jobs’s pursuit of perfection—and the consequences.
Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 627 pp., $35) In 2010, Der Spiegel published a glowing profile of Steve Jobs, then at the helm of Apple. Jobs’s products are venerated in Germany, especially by young bohemian types. Brain scan: Taking the long view. What Good Bosses Do With Bad Apples. Every software project I’ve worked on has used the "Spanish Theory" of project management, and its likely yours have too. The "Spanish Theory" says that management's job is to extract the maximum resources (= developer effort) from the smallest amount of money (= developer salary).
In practice what this often means for the developer is unpaid overtime (also known as "crunch time"), something very familiar to game developers, and also common in traditional software development, as the project nears its deadline. Lean Startup, Big Company: Challenges and Recommendations. Posted on | February 9, 2012 | 7 Comments Over the last year or so I’ve worked with a few large organizations to solve product strategy issues.
Typically, the organization is working to introduce a new product line or concept to the market, and sometimes they have already entered the market but don’t have a clear understanding of what stands between the product and financial success. My observation is that large corporations have a capable process for bringing incremental products to market, but there are many issues when they try to enter a new market or create a disruptive new product for their current markets.
Yet this kind of innovation is critical to the long term success of the organization. This isn’t a new problem nor is it poorly studied: corporations have always struggled with disruptive innovation. Challenges There are a few recurring challenges unique to large corporations when it comes to adopting lean, iterative product development techniques: Solutions.
What I've Learned About Smart People. Going to Harvard means I have the amazing opportunity to be around a lot of smart people.
Now, when I say “smart people,” I don’t mean that guy who always wins trivia night. I mean, blazingly intelligent individuals who are regarded as the pre-eminent scholars in their field. It’s pretty amazing to pass by Turing Award winners and leading political science scholars grabbing a sandwich. Our Emergent Digital Future. What will the digital world look like in ten years?
The trends are already clear. On Business Madness. Walter Isaacson's 'Steve Jobs' Tuesday, 14 February 2012.
The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies 2012. Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle. Viewpoint: Gartner on the changing nature of work. 10 February 2012Last updated at 00:04 By Tom Austin Vice president, Gartner.
The Guts of a New Machine. So you can say that the iPod is innovative, but it's harder to nail down whether the key is what's inside it, the external appearance or even the way these work together.
One approach is to peel your way through the thing, layer by layer. The Aura. The Science of Serendipity. The Eight Pillars of Innovation. Desperately Seeking Simplicity - Chris Zook. By Chris Zook | 12:00 PM February 2, 2012 The softly drifting snowflakes that greeted me every morning at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year were an inadequate warm-up for the cold blast of reality I felt in session after session during this five day Congress on the “state of the world.”
As I participated, one theme seemed omnipresent — that while events are unfolding in the world at an accelerating pace, increasingly complex institutions are less and less able to deal with them. I heard it in the opening remarks of WEF founder Klaus Schwab who talked about a growing phenomenon of “burn-out” among world leaders with finite energy and time to put against seemingly bottomless complexity. An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis.
Government is the most visible crucible for this clash of speed versus complexity, yet businesses are not far behind. When Truisms Are True. Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle. Data Monday: Amazon Prime. Another Myth Bites The Dust: How Apple Listens To Its Customers. IT Software Community - Jan Krueger - In Hiring Programmers, Style Trumps Language. Mobile Home Bloggers Messages Tw | Fb | In | Rss Operations Software Application Transformation Software Storage Essentials Jan Krueger In Hiring Programmers, Style Trumps Language , Software Developer , 2/21/2012 Bio Email This Print Comment 33 comments Perhaps it's time to adopt a different approach to hiring programmers -- namely, judging them according to their general understanding of and approach to programming.
Some time ago, I stumbled across a fascinating talk by Robert C. In computer science, of course, "notation" refers to programming languages. Martin's main point is that, despite personal tastes, programming languages are not really that different from one another. Yet most of the programming job advertisements that I come across are looking for people knowledgeable in a particular language, like C++ or Java.