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.

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Nobody cares about your tickets

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As engineers we like to speak in tickets and stories and bugs IDs etc - those units of currency we find easy to grok; they're usually fi...
Monday, 12 September 2011

The secret of managing software projects

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As a technology manager there is almost unlimited discourse you can read about how to successfully manage delivery and control projects.  Th...
Monday, 22 August 2011

Great Quote and Greater Source

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This article has a great take on developer-husbandry, and I particularly like the last paragraph: "I’ve gone back and forth on whethe...
Friday, 22 July 2011

Why don't we invent more?

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I sat in on a conference call today (actually I'm still on it!) where we talked a lot about innovation - specifically why we haven't...
Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Big Roadmap seeks Innovative Thinkers for long term relationship

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I haven't posted much recently - my new gig  has been keeping me quite busy - but life is returning to a more sustainable pace now so I...
Thursday, 28 April 2011

a geographic sense of urgency

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A friend of mine recently visited the Boeing factory just outside of Seattle and came back with a story I thought was worth sharing; somethi...
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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