This stuff from ReadWriteWeb is great. It shines a light, regardless how ephemeral, on "processes," "running a business" and how "technology can help." Even in the Enterprise. These are Good Things for ReadWriteWeb, Good Things for collective Readers, and Good Things for Mean Business. But I.T. 1.0 isn't yet fully-baked. I.T. .9 (beta!) is hardly…
Author: Steve McNally
I build products, teams and business lines that blend publishing, marketing and advertising technologies for global brands and startups.
Launching: Good Enough vs. “Perfect”
The cast of "Product Chefs" is expanding. A year-plus extremely-rapid design, develop, release, refine is quickly becoming design, deliberate, design, deliberate, develop, deliberate, design, deliberate (you get the picture). I have definite ideas about how wrong this is in this current environment, but I'm too experienced to think mine's the only - or only correct - perspective. My feeling is you…
Managing Expectations in Project Timelines (with FAQ)
As we've delivered products through the years, managing timelines - and stakeholders' perceptions thereof - has been an interesting source of teachable moments. The snarky note below was for a core team-only. The tone in it is not recommended for general stakeholders. The FAQ covers two main recurring points; additional contributions would be great -…
A Successful product development cycle
A successful product development cycle: design, develop, release, refine Add "communicate throughout" and it's the core of every successful project.