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.

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Intellectual Property in 3 posts – episode I

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I originally called this ‘Intellectual Property Done Quick’ but, when I was finished and looked at what I had wrought, I realized that ‘done...
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Friday, 19 November 2010

Steriods for Signups

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Anyone who runs a business on the web should be intimately familiar with the registration funnel (sometimes called the recruitment or conver...
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Adding a feature dimension to planning boards

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Planning boards – sometimes called task boards – are a great way to make work visible, facility teamwork, and surface impediments.  The work...
Monday, 4 October 2010

MVP in the Enterprise

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Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a well understood concept in startups.  It is all about distilling your features down to the barest of esse...
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Monday, 20 September 2010

Mechanical Sympathy

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In the world of motorsports ‘mechanical sympathy’ is the measure of a driver’s impact on their vehicle. As well as fuel economy it is probab...
Wednesday, 15 September 2010

The Product Management Boundary

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Talking to a few of my industry peers (web CTOs and CIOs) about what they do, and to a few CEOs about their expectations, something that’s b...
Tuesday, 31 August 2010

The Abstraction Trap

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Abstractions exist so that we can take shortcuts when building stuff.  They readily implement some of the messy necessities behind things li...
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Friday, 13 August 2010

5 Less Obvious Leadership Qualities

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There is so much material out there on leadership and management – the basics of the topic are generally well covered and so I’d like to add...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Architecture in Agile

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When a team first starts practicing agile a question that usually comes up fairly early is where architects fit in.  In a set of processes w...
Thursday, 8 July 2010

Finding Talent Part 2

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Continuing on from my last post here is the balance of the talk: Culture is critical to success Culture is meaningful in 2 ways; it’s t...
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