This is how to keep a product moving.
Here’s a nice explanation of data mining in English, for the non-quants.
What kind of designer are you?
And if a lawsuit doesn’t scare you, how about karma?
As Product Managers, we have to recognize that we are not the only ones who know our products. Innovation is distributed, and harnessing that innovation and those ideas is critical. But too often, our analogous reasoning, past experiences and our gut cause us to shut down ideas prematurely. This can cause missed opportunities, poor relationships, and at worst, a culture where people don’t share their ideas.
By driving more dialogue, rather than discussion and debate, we can become more inviting, drive better teamwork, and become more successful. When engaging in dialogue, we:
- Listen HARD. [Try active listening]
- Challenge our own ideas, and use inquiry to gain understanding
- Try to understand rather than to persuade
When you walk away from an effective dialogue, you will be reflecting on what you’ve learned. If you walk away feeling like “they don’t know what they’re talking about” or “I don’t know why they just don’t get it,” then you were probably somewhere in the realm of discussion or debate rather than dialog.
Here are some resources. I highly recommend Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper’s paper, which gives some helpful direction.
- Active Listening - Wikipedia
- Tips For Effective Dialogue: Dialogue vs. Discussion - The Henderson Group
- Dialogue: The Power of Understanding - Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper and Duane Trammell
Endorphins. And that is all.
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Mobile by the numbers (via The Future Of Mobile [DECK])
Such an interesting challenge. The links back to the original image are great for content sites and commerce sites alike. But I guess it’s a bigger concern for the stock image world. Perhaps publishers should be allowed to associate images from their domain with a watermark. Seems like an easy win.
As I’ve moved to management, I’ve done less and less hands on coding. From time to time I take on personal projects to try to hold onto my chops, and also because I miss it like crazy. So in taking on a project, here’s what happens…
First, I decide I want to learn MongoDB. I install it, and play with it, and I’m ready to go. Then I want to build a site with it, and find a Django fork for NoSQL databases. Now I want to install that. But then I learn that I should use virtualenv, so I go to install that. But to do that, I can use pip, so I install and learn that. Now, I need Mercurial, so I download and install that. Eventually, I’ll work my way back up the stack to my original project, which would be a Python Django site backed by MongoDB.
Love it and miss it. I need more vacations so I can do this more often :)
Another perspective, but fairly comprehensive.
