The Fletcher Project

The things I should have learned from years of putting together people and technology to get successful product online. We’ll probably talk about strategy, distributed systems, agile development, webscale computing and of course how to manage those most complicated of all machines – the human being – in our quest to expose the most business value in the least expensive way.

Monday, 31 March 2008

I Don't Brake for Meetings

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That's the bumper sticker I'd have on my car if I was the sort of person who affixed adhesive labels declaring how I feel about stuf...
Thursday, 27 March 2008

Balancing Capability vs. The Perfect Design

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A while back I read this post and it got me thinking about how we design solutions - an activity that architecture is a [big] subset of.  O...
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Planning

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I like Dan's analogy on this, simply motoring along blind will almost always have a fiery end.  I want to apply it to planning on a mor...
Friday, 21 March 2008

Do the Right Thing

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I got a few emails about this post and I guess it might have been a little too vague.  The conclusion I was trying to draw is that we need ...
Tuesday, 18 March 2008

A Revenue Share != an SLA

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When white labeling etc with 3rd parties a revenue share as a commercial structure often seems attractive.  There are usually some obvious b...
Monday, 17 March 2008

Closing the Gap

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Last week I posted about the gap between infrastructure and software .  I figured it might be a nice idea to talk about how we could address...
Friday, 14 March 2008

Epistle to the Vendors

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Before doing what I do now I was always in system integrators/consultancies.  Now that I'm on the other side of the boardroom table I...
Tuesday, 11 March 2008

The Great Divide

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I'm into availability at the moment, so much so that I'm leading an organization-wide change initiative that targets cultural, techn...
Monday, 10 March 2008

A Good Quote

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I talk a lot about failure in systems - it's inevitability and the things we can do to minimize it's impact and recover in a quick...
Sunday, 9 March 2008

A Change of Screenery

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Continuing the good work started here... [for a given value of "good" I guess]
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