I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
I’ve managed to mostly avoid talking about what we’re making here. Perhaps shyness, we (the PageShot team) don’t yet know where it’s going, or if …
I’m blogging about the development of a new product in Mozilla, look here for my other posts in this series
I came upon a new (for me) term recently: evolutionary prototyping. This is in contrast to the rapid or throwaway prototype.
Another term for the rapid prototype: the “close-ended …
One of the bigger changes going from engineer to manager was to redefine what I meant by the question: how are we going to do this? As an engineer I would deconstruct that question to ask what is the software we need to build, and the technical barriers we need …
I’ve been trying to work through a post on technology choices, as I had it in my mind that we should rewrite substantial portions of the product. We’ve just upped the team size to two, adding Donovan Preston, and it’s an opportunity to share in some of …
In my last post on management I talked about a Manager Tools series, and summarized it as:
The message in these podcasts is: it is your responsibility as a manager to support the company’s decisions. Not just to execute on them, but to support them, to communicate that support …
I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services. My previous post was The Tech Demo, and the first in the series is Conception.
The Minimal Viable Product is a popular product development approach …
I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services. My previous and first post was Conception.
As I finished my last post I had a product idea built around a strategy (growth through social tools and sharing) and …
I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services
When Labs closed and I entered management I decided not to do any programming for a while. I had a lot to learn about management, and that’s what …
Management is new for me. I have spent a lot of time focusing on the craft of programming, now I focus on the people who focus on the craft of programming.
During the fifteen years I’ve been participating in something I’ll call a developer community, I’ve seen …
This year I’m starting to understand what it is to be middle aged. I think I became middle aged in 2011, but this year maybe I know what that is.
When I was young I viewed middle age through the lens of a young person. I would think: to …