How do you decide whether you should build a native mobile app or a responsive mobile site or the flavors in between? After searching online for a tool to help organize this decision making process and not finding anything, I decided to create a “decision grid” (see below) to simplify this process. My aim is […]
Let me put it simply: if any part of your job responsibilities involves problem solving, you need to learn about Lean Startup! (click to tweet) Even if it doesn’t right now, given how quickly established industries are being disrupted, there is no guarantee your job will exist 5 years from now especially if it’s […]
We all think we have a pretty good idea about our strengths and weaknesses. In the longer term, we think we have a general idea where we are headed in our careers and aspirations. In the middle term, we think we have a pretty good handle on the current and future state of our projects […]
Well, it works. Yes, startups are risky. Per Eric Ries: A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. So it should be no surprise that the majority of startups fail. What is the best outcome under those circumstances? To optimize the path to […]
Or are you working for an insecure founder? Take this 5 point quiz to figure it out. I should know, I was one. And when I was there, admitting it was really hard. So let’s dive in – ask yourself these questions (or answer for your founder) and add up your points. 1) Sharing your […]
So you’ve heard about the Lean Startup and are curious. If you don’t have a basic primer on it, go here. I’m serious! If you don’t understand the philosophy then review that before you jump into some techniques. I’ll wait. Okay, now that you understand the basic principles let’s move forward with my pick of […]
Lean Startup is a methodology/movement taking over the startup universe. Lean Startup Conferences, startup weekends, numerous meetups, LinkedIn groups, blogs, podcasts and most business incubators worldwide inundate us with Lean Startup evangelization. As with most buzzwords, it has grown to where people talk about it – without really understanding it. To that end, this is […]
Azure: It’s not just a nice color Windows Azure is Microsoft’s entry into the cloud. Microsoft was a little late to really get into the Cloud Computing party when compared to some cloud heavyweights like Amazon AWS (S3, EC2) and Google Apps/App Engine but nevertheless Windows Azure is a very strong entrant in its own […]
As mentioned in Part I, one of our clients wanted to go beyond general web site statistics and traffic. In this article we will talk about what we did for advanced reporting statistics and how we did it (with code samples). Image 1 A windows service downloads data from Google Analytics and inserts it […]
Problem statement: All software development teams (whether Agile or not) entering the maintenance phase are charged with keeping application/code quality high, while rolling out frequent incremental updates. Now unit test coverage (nUnit, mbUnit, phpUnit etc.) and automated functional test coverage (viz. Selenium, QTP, Win Runner etc.) can ease this burden. However, it is not feasible […]