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.

Thursday, 29 April 2010

Technical Debt Credit Rating

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A while back I wrote about how closely technical debt paralleled financial debt and then a short follow-up post with the meta-message that...
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Nobody Wants Computers

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Well they shouldn't - they should want what computers will do for them . Many people turn up to conferences or SIG meetings and ask me h...
Friday, 23 April 2010

The ISO standard for business plans

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If I had a quarter for every time a budding entrepreneur has asked me about what should go into his business plan, then I'd have - let...
Monday, 19 April 2010

What kind of idiots are in charge here anyway?

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When I coach people about being effective in organizations something that regularly comes up is their ability to influence decisions made at...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Things change because people change

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Occasionally I get a hard time for spending such a large part of my time with my teams, with the individuals, out on the floor in their work...
Monday, 5 April 2010

Let's Ban Agile

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Bet that made you look. Whenever I'm dealing with the wider business and I come across confusion about (or resistance to) agile practice...
Wednesday, 31 March 2010

The Paradox of Freemium

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One of the businesses I advise recently flipped over to a freemium model and – as expected – saw a step change in paying subscribers. It doe...
Friday, 26 March 2010

Encouraging Profitable Usage

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A couple of weeks ago a friend sent me this article from a mutual acquaintance at CCP. It's all about the continuous struggle that the...
Monday, 22 March 2010

Reporting & Agile

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When I talk to people about their experiences with agile development I frequently hear - from the business side - that once all the bureaucr...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Cloud Congress Done Quick

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[well, my bit at least] Yesterday I spoke at this year’s Cloud Computing Conference covering what cloud computing really is all about (on...
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