I was getting some work done at a local restaurant this morning and overhead a waiter taking an order from a customer. The customer ordered a main dish and included, “I’d like to substitute the fruit cup for the potatoes.” If you are like me, I took this to mean that the customer wanted potatoes. [...]
This past weekend I found myself getting caught up watching Quinten Tarantino’s 1994 classic gangster film Pulp Fiction. Of all of the great scenes in the movie, I’ve always been most fond of the, “The Bonnie Situation.” In case you don’t recall or haven’t seen the film, The Bonnie Situation is a short part in [...]
I was never athletic enough to be on the track team in high school, but they did make us practice handing off a baton in high school gym class. I’m quite sure it must have been a magnificient display of un-athleticism. Now…why am I reminiscing about high school gym class on our technology blog? That is [...]
Surprises are only good for Birthdays and Christmas time. Okay, so that’s probably not entirely true, but in the business world, surprises, or things you’re not expecting to happen, are almost always a bad thing. Just think about how much time and money your organization puts into creating strategic and formal business plans. The meetings [...]
37signals produced a great handbook for developing web applications – “Getting Real”. But still make sure you do discovery, a requirements workbook and most importantly use cases.