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.

Friday, 29 May 2009

Hi, I’m Eachan and I’m a fail-a-holic

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I attended a Harvey Nash CIO leadership forum a few days ago, subtitled The Strategic Insight Survey. Combining words like “strategic” and...
Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Don't out-specify your knowledge

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Combining some points from this post by Joe Armstrong and this post by Dan Creswell gives rise to some interesting implementation thoughts...
Sunday, 8 March 2009

Choosing Recruitment Agents

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Every now and again you'll go through that compulsory "we use too many agencies and we need to rationalize" process. As part ...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2009

No problem too small, no reward too big

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Do you ever sit around with friends, talking over a few beers, and solve all the worlds problems? As I get older this seems to be becoming m...
Friday, 27 February 2009

Gartner Economic Downturn Briefing - Part 2

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Continuing on from yesterdays post ; the sessions reinforced to me how little of the core Gartner content is aimed at web companies. Almost...
Thursday, 26 February 2009

Gartner Economic Downturn Briefing - Part 1

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It's been ages since I went to a Gartner briefing, and I figured this would be a topical one to pick the habit back up with - perhaps ge...
Saturday, 21 February 2009

Scalability is not just a technical problem

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There is so much content out there about how to scale out web sites, platforms, and databases – but it all focuses on the production system ...
Tuesday, 17 February 2009

The Good and the Bad of Google Product Management

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I don't often pick up stuff from the news - I don't really consider what I write here as commentary - but this one I couldn't re...
Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Giving References

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I was recently asked to act as a reference for a couple of people, and that got me thinking about the policy most organisations seem to have...
Thursday, 29 January 2009

Why are they never happy?

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This is another one of those stories that my girlfriend will tell you explains why we don't get invited around for dinner more than once...
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