@PHP_CEO is a new corporate humor goldmine on Twitter. It’s very much like I am a developer, but, you know, from the CEO perspective.
Some of those tweets are nothing short of brilliant!
Tag: startups
Silicon Valley Hierarchy Of Needs
While reading this not funny post, I came across the Silicon Valley Hierarchy of Needs, which I think is hilarious. It’s a nice take on the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, of course.
Internet-era ways of working
“Internet-era ways of working” is an excellent collection of points (somewhere between the design principles and TODO list items) on how to organize the work / business / project in the modern age. Some of these are obvious and well-known, others are a bit less so. Read the whole article for more details, but here are the main items:
- Design for user needs, not organisational convenience
- Test your riskiest assumptions with actual users
- The unit of delivery is the empowered, multidisciplinary team
- Do the hard work to make things simple
- Staying secure means building for resilience
- Recognise the duty of care you have to users, and to the data you hold about them
- Start small and optimise for iteration. Iterate, increment and repeat
- Make things open; it makes things better
- Fund product teams, not projects
- Display a bias towards small pieces of technology, loosely joined
- Treat data as infrastructure
- Digital is not just the online channel
I’ve been thinking a lot about this subject over the last few years. Some of the items above I practice almost religiously (7, 8, 9, 10). Some I think I do, but I’m not sure (2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12). Some I’m still figuring out (1, 5, 11, 12). But overall, I think the article is insightful as much of this, even the most obvious parts, are quite difficult to put in words.
The Tool that Will Help You Choose Better Product Ideas
Itamar Gilad, of ex-Google fame, has an excellent post – The Tool that Will Help You Choose Better Product Ideas – which describes a process for selecting better product ideas and implementing them with confidence, minimizing the risks and maximizing the team efficiency.
Unlike many other similar posts, this one is very practical, detailed, and relies on iterations, feedback, communications, and ties together different roles within the company or the team.
Tim O’Reilly : Networks and the Next Economy
I consider Tim O’Reilly to be one of the smartest people around. Whether you agree with that or not, or whether you worry about his education agenda being pushed too much, the “Networks and the Next Economy” slides are still worth the time. These are both current and futuristic at the same time.