Yesterday I posted some of my own ideas on improving product management. Today I thought I would share a few of the better articles I have read on the topic, and contrast them to my own ideas. First up Kathy Sierra has a post on leveraging the community to to...
This is part 1 – part 2 (to be published soon) looks at some recent articles I have seen that support this approach In one of my day jobs I get involved with product management and I often find that bridging the gap between our limited investment budget and the...
Years ago I setup a collaborative working environment for my team, the idea was for the environment to be really social, we had lots of breakout rooms, large tables where people could sit together, comfy seats, whiteboards everywhere a library area and of course quiet space for when you needed...
I find that I am increasingly wanting to save and view flash files. Maxthon has a plug-in for this but its not that great and when my eldest daughter came to me last night and said she wanted to save a great flash animation of hurricane damage I really struggled...
In this post a few weeks ago I described how I liked the FeedDemon keyboard reading experience, however there are a few things I would like to see improved, which I realise are very picky! The default key definitions seem too difficult for me, I want to be able to...
Before my upgrade to Vista I had been pretty impressed by Windows Update and I was impressed by the install experience of Vista, all my drivers seemed to be on the DVD or seamlessly downloaded. However last night I checked on the HP web site and was pleased to see...
I am a bit nervous about VMware on Vista right now and concerned about the upgrade costs to move from 5.5 to 6. So for now I am leaving VMware on my servers. For my clients I have installed Virtual PC 2007 and have been pleasently surprised by the following:...
We have spent the last few days in the Lake District, we started off in Kendal, then went up to Carlisle for a couple of days and then back down to Arnside which is one of our favorite walking areas. I only took the Treo 650 so the photo’s are...
I have been using Vista for a while on my Tablet and Laptop, but my main desktop has remained on Windows 2003 server. Fortunately a kindly partner agreed to buy me a new desktop for some development work I am doing with them so I decided to get a machine...
OneNote 2003 already has one of the most comprehensive implementations of “flags” that I have seen in any software, and it’s getting even better in OneNote 2007, this post gives some details. It’s worth reading for three reasons: If you use OnNote you can learn a lot If you are...