Jim Highsmith on [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CutterConsortiumEnterpriseSuite/~3/127107226/apm070621.html Innovation and Agility]: I have always maintained that one characteristic of a good agile leader is the ability to balance: up-front planning with on-going planning, early architecture with evolutionary architecture, and innovation with efficiency. It is a difficult balancing act. If CEOs can’t seem to get the balancing right, how can …
Author Archives: Martien van Steenbergen
Check this out: cool Mac software from Amsterdam
[http://www.checkoutapp.com/ ] [http://www.versionsapp.com/ ] Via [http://developer.apple.com/business/macmarket/checkout.html Apple Developer Connection]: :The team of young developers at Amsterdam-based Madebysofa were frustrated as customers of a difficult point-of-sale (POS) application and a shortage of usable and affordable alternatives. So they decided to turn a problem into an opportunity, and set out to create their own application that worked …
Continue reading “Check this out: cool Mac software from Amsterdam”
Freecycle Network
[http://www.eekim.com/blog/collaboration/tools/networkedtoolsemail.html Eek speaks] about [http://www.freecycle.org/ freecycling]. A wonderful grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns using a simple mailinglist. Freecyclers have only one rule: :Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages. An excellent way to get rid of stuff …
Continuous Partial Attention
My son [http://martijn.van.steenbergen.nl/ Martijn] recently started working for [http://q42.nl/ Q42]. One of his new colleagues pointed him to [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/continuous_partial_attention.php Continuous Partial Attention] on whether or not to unplug from the ever increasing flow of interruptions of the grid and focus on getting some work done. Becoming ever more agile—do some yoga. Thanks Martijn & colleague!
Lachende Boeddha
[http://lachendeboeddha.nl/ ] [http://gastonpfvile.blogspot.com/ Gaston Vilé] levert sinds kort ”'[http://lachendeboeddha.nl/ lachende Boeddhabeelden]”’ voor ”’onbezorgde gelukzaligheid”’. Mits we onze eigen ware aard—de Boeddha in onszelf—hebben gevonden natuurlijk. Gaston, ik wens je veel succes, plezier en onbezorgde gelukzaligheid! P.S. Is het een idee om elke dag een nieuwe mooie [[boeddhistische wijsheden|boeddhistische wijsheid]] te plaatsen?
DocBook – FrameMaker – MediaWiki – DocBook
To my former creative colleague, while at Sun Microsystems, Wilfred Springer, now at TomTom. Hi Wilfred, Seeing on your blog [http://agilejava.com/blog Distributed Reflections of the Third Kind] that you’re still a [http://agilejava.com/blog/?p=112 big fan of DocBook], allow me to pose a question. I am in the process of writing an extensive pattern language (which I …
Continue reading “DocBook – FrameMaker – MediaWiki – DocBook”
Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development
Via [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot]: :[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/2258242&from=rss Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development]: “slugo writes ‘Internet search giant Google (GOOG) hopes to speed the development of plug-in hybrid cars by giving away millions of dollars to people and companies that have what appear to be practical ways to get plug-in hybrid automobiles to market faster. :’While …
Continue reading “Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development”
One trillion euro for AardWagen
How about rewarding ”’one trillion euro”’ for the first international precompetitive collaboration that produces a vehicle in ten years that improves rather than poverishes our Earth in each and every step of it’s lifecycle? From original conception to design, manufacturing, use and destruction, AardWagen will make our environment better, more whole, embellish it, enrich it. …
Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?
Via [http://slashdot.org Slashdot]: :[http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1753257&from=rss Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?]: “Chris M writes “In a recent CNET article, the mobile phone editor writes about what he thinks would make a perfect phone. Unfortunately, as someone in the comments section points out, much of the technology that is used in this concept phone belongs …
Continue reading “Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?”
Hoshin Kanri
Since 2000 or so, I regularly use a Hoshin sheet to jumpstart new projects or business. Hoshin Kanri has its roots in the 1950s when lectures by Dr. Deming and Dr. Juran in Japan taught the Deming Wheel (PDCA Cycle) and the need to focus on management processes for continuous improvement, including both Breakthrough Management …