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July 2006

“The Long Tail” Ad Nauseum

by Pete Abilla on July 31, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson’s new book The Long Tail is hot. It is a provocative and innovative book that attempts to show an economics that the web has created, where the sales of “non-hits” can cumulatively be larger than the sales of [...]

Scrum at Yahoo!

by Pete Abilla on July 25, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn The New York Times published an article comparing Yahoo! and Google’s products and their development times. It was an interesting read. In that article, the Ash Patel, Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!, mentioned Scrum as a method used to reduce development time: Meanwhile, [...]

Focus on the Customer

by Pete Abilla on July 24, 2006

feature requests in software development

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Jeff Bezos, during a pre-peak meeting once said to a small group of us that there will be many, many winners on the internet. He said that some follow the close-follower mentality and those companies focus on the competition. He continued to say [...]

Software Development: Agile, Team Size and Dynamics

by Pete Abilla on July 19, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I’ve long ranted about Amazon’s 2-Pizza Team, which is defined as the following: a team where the team size is no larger than 2 pizzas can feed. Amazon realized early on that in order to cut software development time, the solution was *NOT* [...]

The Guerrilla-War-Of-The-Mind Strategy

by Pete Abilla on July 17, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Continuing the series on the 33 Strategies of War, I’ll be summarizing the 2nd Strategy: The Guerilla-War-Of-The-Mind Strategy. Greene begins by stating that often the biggest contributor to failure in strategy is our past — our previous successes and failures. He recommends venturing [...]