Enterprise applications, “I.T. 2.0” and the previous releases

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…

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…

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.