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the status quo. Instead, guys like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey want to rearrange the world to fit the future they want to live in.Because of this obsession with the future, we tend to get excited about companies long before theyve proven their ideas, developed business models or generated revenues (never mind profits). The intellectual energy of a startup or a founder is what gets him/her millions of dollars for virtually nothing.I told Pip:We can tell when a company will no longer be involved in generating the next round of real energy in the tech/internet world, and when they hit that point, they never come back to be an energy creator and so they are dead in West Coast minds.So when I (or someone around here) proclaim that Microsoft or Yahoo is dead, it doesnt necessarily mean that the company is without revenues or without a business. Both Yahoo and Microsoft are making a ton of money and will do so for the foreseeable future. Microsoft makes so much money that it even gives dividends to its shareholders.The idea of aging gracefully makes a lot of sense in general, but in the realm of technology it doesnt make much sense. What about Oracle and IBM as examples of large undead companies, you might ask? I would argue that Oracle and IBM are outliers.IBM, despite its size, has managed to reinvent and reboot itself many times from a typewriter maker to mainframe computers to desktops to a services-driven company. IBM has used its massive R&D spending to become young again and again. The IBM of today is very different from the IBM I first started covering as a young reporter. Oracle is an exception mostly because of its leader, Larry Ellison, who is a businessperson at heart, and who knows technology and perfected a buy-and-grow strategy for his company.What these two examples show is that even an older company can thrive if it:Successfully reboots and redefines itself for the future, so it can attract the talent to get it to the future.Is run by a technologically-savvy founder.A technology company hits the dead phase when its unable to stop the bleeding of talent or attract the new talent it so desperately needs in order to create energy. The problem isnt unique to large companies; even small startups hit that dead phase and lose their intellectual energy.While bureaucracy and over-dependency on certain ideas is a problem for large companies, small companies often die because of a few primary reasons: lack of money, lack of leadership or lack of market. They are all intertwined.If theres no market, the money (revenues or venture capital) dries up, which means talent escapes to find new opportunities. Lack of leadership means lack of ability to make money and attract or retain talent. Lack of money well, that means you dont have the oxygen to stay alive.Or as Pip said, To paraphrase the immortal words of Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride, West Coast dead means still barely alive!Fonte: http://gigaom.com/ By Om Malik Mar. 31, 2011, 8:16am PT
For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available days, talk about high standards gives way to good enough, and people realize that deadlines are aptly named. During the last-minute crunch, someone may well wonder, how did it come to this? Could it have been prevented? Every Web project has deadlines. But not every designer or developer deals with them the same way.[By the way, did you know we have a brand new free Smashing Email Newsletter? Subscribe now and get fresh short tips and tricks on Tuesdays!]What Causes A Deadline To Break?Because a deadline marks the end of a project, everyone involved in the project must understand the deadlines role. Most projects follow a schedule or have an estimated date by which they must be completed. The concept is simple then: when the work takes longer than expected, deadlines get missed.A deadline is the end point of a time estimate, making it a known quantity. But how long will the work actually take to get done?Of course, projects can be more complicated in their details. Unexpected technical problems and unanticipated changes will affect the amount of work required. Sometimes other tasks take priority. Sometimes the time estimate wasnt considered carefully enough.Whatever the cause, too much work needs to be done in the available time. Thats the problem, but not the challenge.Rate Deadlines By Severity Of ConsequencesThe hardest deadlines are tied to events that cannot be moved, such as a date promised to the public, an upcoming trade show or a date stipulated in a contract. Retailers know that their holiday sales must end at Christmas, and theater owners can expect movie-goers to be upset if a 1:00 pm showing doesnt start until 2:00. Likewise, if a website is tied to a time-sensitive event, its relevance is lost once the event has passed. Hard deadlines have clear consequences when missed.Deadlines exist for a reason. The severity of the trouble caused by missing them increases dramatically after they have passed.Deadlines tied to less public events are no less real, but a project will soldier on if the deadline slips. Company-imposed target dates, for example, rely less on public demand than on the temperament of managers. Meetings routinely start 10 minutes late because something came up.The softest deadlines lack teeth or are set at some vague point in the future. Thats not always bad: not every missed deadline will cause a life-or-death crisis. But the same methods of solving the crisis apply. There are many strategies for handling a last-minute crisis. Most involve planning, setting priorities and knowing ones limits.Strategies For Preventing Deadline CrisesThe beginning of a project is a great time to prevent problems later on.The first solution is both obvious and difficult: do not take on a project that cannot be completed in the given time. Declining paid work requires discipline and confidence, but if the deadline is impossible, then the project may not be worth the money. Money
almost everything should be done by now. But it rarely is.DeadlineLaunch the project.ReviewWin or lose, everyone should ask what should have happened at each phase of the project? What should have been done to meet each mini-deadline along the way?Notice that mini-deadlines are based on time, not task. Tasks have a way of expanding, of taking up more time than planned, which mini-deadlines should prevent. Think of a mini-deadline as a chance to review the projects timeline. While this approach may not entirely stave off a deadline crisis, it gives you opportunities to catch and correct problems along the way.Plan Sacrifices In AdvanceEvery project has absolute requirements, which are essentially the reasons the project exists at all or the problems it is designed to solve. But many also have supplemental requirements. If a project requires A, B and C, then by all means include D, E and F, but only with the understanding that they might have to wait.For example, a newsletter is an important marketing tool for an e-commerce website, but less important than an easy-to-use cart and secure log-in page. Likewise, the top priority for a photo gallery should be to present photos. If the deadline is looming and the AJAX is buggy, then perhaps the blog should wait.Marking certain features as secondary provides relief when things go wrong. These features dont need to be cut, but their deadlines should be later than those of the core project.PracticeMeasure the rate at which you work by timing how long you take to perform various tasks. You want to figure out how much time you need to comfortably perform each task, not how fast you can get it done.For example, the schedule might allow for 30 minutes to create a favicon. But in reality, it consumes 8 hours.Wait a minute. Eight hours for a measly 1616-pixel graphic? Isnt that... excessive?Thats not the point. Youre not learning the rate at which you work so that you can gasp in embarrassment at the result. Workflow efficiency can be improved later. The question is, how much time are you comfortable with right now? In this case, its 8 hours.Deadlines arent the problem. Problems arise when the work outweighs the allotted time. Learning how long you take to accomplish certain tasks is the best way to set a realistic schedule.ConclusionNot every deadline drama can be prevented, but even the worst can be dealt with professionally. Prepare for surprises, break up large tasks into manageable segments and prioritize. Its a matter of respect: deadlines mean business. Do you?How do you prevent deadline emergencies? Whats the worst problem youve faced under time pressure? Whats your greatest solution? Share your story in the comments below.FONTE:http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Perdao por nao traduzir.Jason Fried co-founded 37signals in Chicago as a three-person web design shop. And while it provided a decent living for him, the work itself lacked a certain satisfaction. I found project-based consulting frustrating because we would work on a site for months and hand it over to the client, who would inevitably make changes and drag us through their politics, he says. It was rare that what we actually built saw the light of day.That frustration didnt prevent 37signals from becoming successful. But as their projects grew larger and more complex, Fried and co-founder, David Heinemeier Hansson, found themselves looking for a piece of software that could help them better manage jobs among a growing network of staff and contract help often operating from different locations. Having evaluated a number of off-the-shelf tools, they decided to build a simple piece of project management software for their own internal use.Then a funny thing happened: 37signals clients saw the simplicity of the software and started asking where they could buy it. It wasnt long before Fried and his partner realized they had built a product that might have mass appeal. They polished it up, gave it the name Basecamp and, through their blog, announced its availability. A year later, Basecamp was more profitable than the web design business, and so 37signals stopped being a service business and started being a product business.Today, tens of thousands of small businesses use 37signals software, and the company hasnt built a websiteother than its ownsince 2006.Making the SwitchWhen I recently interviewed Fried, also the co-author of the New York Timesbestselling book Rework, I was reminded of my former research company, Warrillow & Co., where we spent seven years as a project-based service business before we redesigned our model into a subscription-based product company. In my case, changing from a service to a product business made it more predictable, enjoyable and ultimately sellable (Warrillow & Co. was acquired by the Corporate Executive Board in 2008).In the case of 37signals, Fried has no plans to sell but loves the freedom of running a product company. When youre a consulting business, you have to say yes to big clients, who end up telling you what to do. You become beholden to the giant corporation who is paying you $60,000 for a project, he explains. I love the feeling of control I have now. We build the best products we can for tens of thousands of customers. We try to make decisions that will benefit all of our customers, not just one giant corporation waving a big check.Based on my conversation with Fried, coupled with my own experience, here are four steps for turning a service business into a product business:Step 1: Develop a Subscription OfferingIn the case of 37signals, customers buy software on a subscription model. Under such a system, customers pay a small amount each month, so Fried and Hansson can predict their revenue well into the future. Predictable future revenue diversified among many customers gave 37signals the courage and resources to eventually turn off its service
business.At Warrillow & Co., we went from project-based consulting to having a single subscription to our research, which allowed us to see how our revenue was shaping up.Step 2: Build an Audience37signals had authored a popular blog for seven years before it announced Basecamp to readers. With a direct line to thousands of daily readers, 37signals was able to use the blog as its primary marketing vehicle to sell subscriptions.At Warrillow & Co., we had been running a conference since 1999, so when we made the switch to the subscription model in 2005, past attendees made a natural audience for us.Step 3: Dont Give Yourself an OutIn a service business, clients always take priority, so it is hard to find the time to work on your product offering. In the case of 37signals, it needed project management software to better serve its clients, so it had a natural motivator: either develop the product faster or risk losing clients.At Warrillow & Co., we did not have such a built-in sense of urgency, so we had to manufacture it: we quit accepting consulting projects cold turkey, which was made possible because we charged tens of thousands of dollars upfront for an annual research subscription. Once we had a couple of subscribers, we had the money in the bank to finance the drop in consulting revenue.Step 4: Start Saying NoIt took a year for 37signals to build up enough subscribers to start turning away projects. Fried remembers the day the company stopped offering consulting services: It was so satisfying to know we were in control of our own destiny. We didnt need to grovel for business and kowtow to clients anymore.For me, it was tempting to accept consulting projects, but saying no triggered the opportunity for us to talk about our subscription. We would explain to prospects that we did not offer custom consulting but would go on to describe how our subscription offering could help solve their problem.The JibThe best way I can describe the feeling of making the switch from a service to a product business is to imagine completing a jib turn in a sailboat. Rather than coming about and slowly stalling the boats progress by pointing its nose into the wind, the jib requires the captain to yank the tiller toward his or her body.The jib is a sharp, violent turn and requires a strong stomach. When things get tough, you must override your instincts and continue to yank the tiller toward you until the turn is made and youre safely on the other side.Moving from service to product requires an equally strong stomach as customers will inevitably keep asking you to provide your service. But if you can make the switch, the reward on the other side is the sense that you own a business you control. You, not some overbearing client, decide what you sell, to whom, when and how. If entrepreneurship is about the freedom to be your own boss, then a product business is the ultimate escape.Beba na fonte: http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/11/how-to-turn-a-service-business-into-a-product-business.html
Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store in South Korea - YouTube Everyone is a product manager Lead on Purpose Hacker cria nova forma de grampear iPhones e smartphones Android - Seguranca - IDG Now! How to be A Good Product Manager (which is a phenomenal blog, by the way, and wish I had written most of the content) has this excellent post about requirements, and it applies requirements gathering. One of the traps that we fall into as consultants is that with certain clients, we go into the mode of just gathering requirements and not advising what the requirements should be (read: lets design the Pontiac Aztek, quite possibly the ugliest car on the road).Just gathering requirements is a bad idea. Advising on requirements is a better idea, because thats how you add value.Sure its like herding cats, but the reason many consultants are valuable is theres some wonderful insight that they may have, however small it may seem, that adds phenominal value for the client. Thats why they are paying consultants what they do. How so? We start the conversation about what the direction should be, even if its the wrong direction at the start. One of the essential points that the article makes is that in many cases, the customer has no idea what they want (a car), and what they may get may be anything from a Hummer or a Prius. Our job is to ask questions that will lead to developing a better product, and not necessarily questions that lead to what we think the product should be. Many scenarios, its impossible to satisfy all parties, because they may ask for a car that is great for the environment (the Prius) and can run over people (the Hummer), because the requirements are conflicting. Our job is to find the best solution, not the solution that meets the needs of everyone. Or what do they say trying to make everyone happy will make no one happy?Beba na Fonte: http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2008/05/08/consultant-thursdays-dont-gather-requirements-drive-them/ Momento Cultural: entendendo como funciona o monopsonio da Apple | MacMagazine Quem quiser me acessar no facebook o meu endereco e: www.facebook.com/jorge.dahora.5 A BIBLIA DESNUDA( Traducao atualizada de Joao Ferreira de Almeida )O deus biblico tem fama de generoso; dizem os crentes que ele aceita qualquer um. Mas, ate mesmo quem tem deformidade fisica ?Levitico 21: 16 - 23Disse mais o senhor a Moises: Fala a Arao, dizendo: Ninguem dos teus descendentes, nas suas geracoes, em quem houver algum defeito se chegara para oferecer o pao do seu deus. Pois nenhum homem em quem houver defeito se chegara: Como homem cego, ou coxo, ou de rosto mutilado, ou desproporcionado, ou homem que tiver o pe quebrado ou mao quebrada ( claro ), ou corcovado, ou anao ( ate anao ? ), ou que tiver belida no olho, ou impingens ( impingem e terrivel ), ou que tiver testiculo quebrado. Nenhum homem da descendencia de Arao, o sacerdote, em quem houver algum defeito se chegara para oferecer as ofertas queimadas do senhor; ele tem defeito, nao se chegara para oferecer o pao
do seu deus. Comera o pao do seu deus, tanto do santissimo como do santo ( obrigado, mestre ), porem ate ao veu nao entrara, nem se chegara ao altar ( mas por que ? ) porque tem defeito, para que nao profane os meus santuarios, porque eu sou o senhor, que os santifico.E ainda tem gente que reclama do Marco Feliciano.
Agradeco a todos que visitam este blog e me desculpo pela falta de atualizacao das postagens. A explicacao pra este fato e estar com muitas atividades no momento e por isso nao encontro tempo para me dedicar ao blog. Assim que puder, volto as atividades blogueiras.Um abraco a todos !!!!!!!!! PEROLAS DA BIBLIA ( traducao atualizada de Joao Ferreira de Almeida )Deus e amor. Bem sabia disso as mocas mortas a pedradas na presenca dos pais por transarem antes do casamento. Retirem as criancas da sala e vejam.Deuteronomio 22: 20 - 21Porem, se isto for verdade, que nao achou na moca a virgindade, entao a levarao a porta da casa de seu pai, e os homens de sua cidade a apedrejarao ate que morra, pois fez loucura em israel ( transou antes de ser casada ) prostituindo - se na casa de seu pai ( para deus mulher transar antes do casamento e prostituicao ) assim eliminaras o mal do meio de ti. A BIBLIA DESNUDA( Traducao atualizada de Joao Ferreira de Almeida )Em uma coisa - podem anotar no caderninho - os povos das religioes de origem biblicas estao em pleno acordo : Deus e infalivel. Sera ?Juizes 1: 19Esteve o SENHOR com Juda, e este despovoou as montanhas ( expulsou alguns povos que viviam la ), porem, nao expulsou os moradores do vale, porquanto tinham carros de ferro.Foi isso mesmo que eu entendi ? O deus infalivel nao conseguiu expulsar os moradores do vale porque eles tinham carros de ferro ? Kuaaaaaaaaaaaaakuakuakuakua !!!!! POLITICAGEM DA FEAgora e moda cristao fazer carreira politica. E um tal de vote no missionario Malaquias, um homem de fe. Para vereador, pastor Joao. A fe nao falha. Bispo Mateus, um servo de Deus. A cupula orienta votar em candidatos comprometidos com os valores Evangelicos, que nesse caso significam massificacao de ideias proselitistas ou dogmas especificos, que servem apenas para pessoas com crencas especificas, ainda que existam por tras disso outras conveniencias.Num pais laico onde ha tanta diversidade religiosa esse procedimento e imoral; Se bem que os excessos nao ocorrem so em epocas de eleicoes, basta ligar a tv e veremos programas evangelicos pipocando livremente em certas emissoras, prometendo, sem nenhum acanhamento, desde iluminacao espiritual por meio de uma lanterninha ungida ate os mais fabulosos milagres.Sei que as autoridades pouco podem fazer diante de tamanho poder politico - economico obtido ao longo das decadas explorando a fe, mas isso nao justifica a omissao dos intelectuais.Urge discutirmos mais sobre essa cultura universal chamada Deus. Ate onde faz bem ou mau a humanidade?A crenca num deus tao violento quanto o Deus da biblia reforca a banalizacao da violencia? Como as religioes devem ou se podem intrometerem - se na vida politica de uma sociedade? O que esta sendo feito com o dinheiro do dismo e para aonde ele vai ? E correto sermos obrigados a ouvir pregacoes em locais publicos, como transportes coletivos, por exemplo ? Existe alguma lei que proiba isso ?A quem esse assunto possa interessar, faca comentario aqui no blog ou escreva para meu e-mail;
mais doque isso. As redes sociais, por alcancarem um numero incalculavel de pessoasque produzem conteudo, se transformaram em poderosas ferramentas de mercado,estreitando a linha entre empresa e consumidor. O pessoal da loja Colabora vainos mostrar um pouco sobre seu projeto e nos contar como as redes sociaisinfluenciam nos resultados. Essa palestra vale o RT!17h30 as 18h30 - Desfiledas marcas Coisa Minha,Maria Mallageta e Lala Rocque, "Pe de Chita", "KDesign" & "Tita Maria"EncerramentoOficial.