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February 2007

The Interface is the Product

by Pete Abilla on February 21, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn User Interfaces and — any product Interface — is very difficult to build. How do you design eating utensils for people with arthritic hands? Answering that question is not easy — the physiology of arthritic hands is complex; designing objects that hands with [...]

Living with the Suboptimal

by Pete Abilla on February 18, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Launching a new website, front-end store, or product requires several trade-off’s. Here are two principles I learned at Amazon that still ring true to me. Living with the Suboptimal The result of external competitive pressures and a resource-constrained development environment is that we [...]

Process Cycle Efficiency (PCE)

by Pete Abilla on February 13, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn What is a Process? A process is an systematic activity comprising of smaller activities that culminate in an outcome — service or product. A process can take up time, space, and resources. All processes can be categorized into the following categories: Value-added, Non-value [...]

The Stand-Up Meeting, a Lean-to-Agile Lexicon

by Pete Abilla on February 10, 2007

stand up meeting, kanban software development

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Agile and its many flavors take many of their tenets from The Toyota Production System. At Toyota, there is a concept of Obeya, or “The Big Room.” Obeya, is literally a large room, where all the critical players can gather and make important [...]

Reviewing Carbonite

by Pete Abilla on February 10, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Online Storage Update For November 2011 It’s been almost 5 years since I wrote this post – reviewing Carbonite’s online back up service. Since 5 years is like an eternity in the technology world I wanted to take a moment to review the [...]