Product development operational reviews Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:04:00 +0000 At Zmags we have a quarterly and yearly planning cycle. It works really well, it’s well managed and it ensures that everybody at senior management level is on the same page. Part of the quarterly planning session is operational reviews of all functional areas of the organization. The original framework that we employ for the operational reviews was an adaptation of a sales department operational review kindly provided by the good people at OpenView. I’ve used it for a while and it’s been tweaked a fair bit along the way. I recently had a chance to see the draft operating review framework specifically for product development that Igor Altman at OpenView is creating (and as usual it’s really good).
Seeing Igor’s work got me thinking about how I do operational review presentations and the purpose of them. The way I see it, the purpose of t
Motivation for going cloud Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:11:00 +0000 At Zmags we recently completed a move from a traditional hosting provider to a cloud hosting provider. The move was a pure business decision and was founded on quite elaborate analysis and considerations.
The evaluation process and an upcoming speaking engagement at Cap Gemini got me thinking about motivations for moving into the cloud. As it turned out, the factors that motivated us could be split into two buckets. One bucket containing defensive and one containing offensive business advantages. Somewhat like the hygiene factors of the two factor theory, the defensive business advantages are the features that have to be present in any hosting offering to keep customers on-board.
While political leaders are struggling to agree on anything but the existence of the climate problem the private sector is already profiting from solutions.
Prior to the Credit Crunch only top line mattered. Cost was something that conservative accountants dealt with and something that only mattered for the declining manufacturing industry. Credit was so abundant and cheap that it made
Wolf anybody? Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:24:00 +0000 Securethoughts.comreports that millions of PDFs created from within Internet Explorer have privacy issues. The so called issue is that IF you load a local html file in IE and IF you then print that file to PDF, IE will give the document the file path as title. IF you then publish this PDF document, evil does will be able to obtain information from the path info. So what can this information be used for?? According to the post, attackers could use it to obtain information about what operating system you are running and then use that information for malicious attacks.
PDF is not the perfect format and it has had flaws before but only the very neurotic needs to be concerned about this issue as the information given away should be easily available by: 1) Guessing: Anybody printing a HTML page to pdf and publishing it
Why scrum works?? Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:55:00 +0000 The evidence indicating that Scrum is a more productive methodology is overwhelming. Companies report substantial growth in productivity and quality when transitioning from waterfall to agile. I am myself a strong proponent of Scrum and use it on a daily basis but I find the root causes of the experienced performance increases blurred.
A plethora of explanations for the effectiveness of Scrum have been offered, the most conspicuous of which is that the procedures, the planning and the artifacts in the Scrum framework constitute a more effective method of execution and that this is the primary contributing factor. Smaller teams doing their own planning and given tools for tracking progress is by this argument more effective than large teams in bureaucratic project formation.
The Hawthorne effect or combinations of the Hawthorne and the Placebo effect has been suggested as explanations for the recorded productivity increases. While the Hawthorne effect is usually qu
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