Achievements this week included: - beginning the mid-financial-year team performance reviews - starting to talk people through some work about equipping devs to produce apps - planning work for the second half of the financial year - and juggling two children, one virus and two working parents (again). Sheesh. Next week: mostly: more performance reviews.
Category: Themes
I've been spending some time thinking about what a person, or a group might need to be able to deliver an app for a phone, a tablet or a PC for people to get hold of and use. So far, I've identified eight general categories: 1. An idea If you are going to produce an … Continue reading What do you need to develop an app?
I figure that we've now entered into a phase of the Internet where people find things by one of two routes. Either you know where you want to be, in which case you either enter the URL directly into a browser, or type a company or organisation name into a search engine (or, in some … Continue reading Discoverable? Really??
Achievements this week included: - surviving the mid-year performance calibration exercise without hitting anyone or bursting into tears. But it was close on both fronts. - review of a technical audience segmentation project that's producing some interesting findings - continuing to refine out the ITDF presentation - a great catch up with @euan over coffee (reviewing … Continue reading Weeknote 85: which is exactly how many pennies I spend on breakfast most days…
In conversation with @euan this morning, I was reminded of a time when I was probably as near to putting my fist through a computer monitor at work as I ever have been. I was having to go through the emotional task of updating my HR records through a "self-service" system to change my marital status … Continue reading Data ownership
I'm a big fan of metaphor and analogy, as is witnessed by the title of this blog (even if I have reduced it to an abbreviation these days). In the world of business, however, it seems that metaphorical and analogous comparison for the business of doing business is limited to one of two spheres: military or sporting. … Continue reading Business metaphors
Achievements this week included: - Mid-year review meetings process completed - further thinking about the ITDF presentation in May - a bit of blogging for Computerworld UK - and surviving a week with the boys with Mummy in the USA with work (well, I say "a week"; actually, 5 days and with grandparents called in … Continue reading Weeknote 84: home alone
As I continue to get some thoughts together for the presentation I'm giving in May at the ITDF, and also with some of the recent conversations about start up mentality in existing organisations (see here and here), I've been wondering what would an IT department look like if you could start, today, with a completely … Continue reading A green field IT function
There is a truism that I have often heard repeated by teachers that when a pupil performs well it's because of the pupil's talent, and when they perform badly it's blamed on the teacher. This sprung to mind when I recently read reports of research from Gartner about companies and their IT strategies. The news item was … Continue reading When is an IT strategy a business strategy?
From a conversation with @bindik, @plankytronixx, @MikeOrmond and @mtaulty this week, an unordered list of things that start ups consider when they are making choices about which technologies to use: is it free? can I find people with the skills to develop on/with it? can I hack things together quickly with it? will a VC … Continue reading How start ups choose technologies
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