Category: Digital Transformation

I was asked once, “You’re a smart man, why haven’t you exploited your data ?”

I replied, “Not sure I’m smart but of course we make good use of our data. By the way, you too have lots of data, why aren’t you smart ?”

For those who believe by having lots of data, the company will automatically get a lot smarter … I would suggest all to read the book – “The Data Detective” by Tim Harford. This book gifts us 10 rules of thumb for thinking about reported data.

All 10 rules are useful, but Rule #6 – “Ask Who Is Missing” and #7 -“Demand Transparency When the Computer Says No” are must read … as these two chapters tell a lot about how to avoid big data traps.

Don’t miss it, if you want to be smart in data.

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What’s your company’s signature product ?

Are you in the product business, or in the people business ? Who are you serving, day in day out ?

Good software, like wine, takes time.

But of course, other than time good software also takes lots of proper testing. Therefore I always puzzle why companies spend so little resources in professional testing, and then rely on business users (or even customers) to do casual / incomplete testing.

If you’re going to roll out a product, be sure to involve good software testers … as they are the unsung heros of the software development lifecycle.

Tom Peters’ talk was great.

His autographed book was wonderful.

The best of all was this quote however.

“WTTMTW” – Whoever tries the most things wins.

Every now and then, I asked myself “Have I tried something new lately ?”

What’s your favorite question to yourself ?

One of the differences between a delivery team and a product team is …

The delivery team care about how to deliver the solution on time, within budget and align with the specification.

On the other hand, the product team care most about the customers’ problem, and whether the solution can help the customers to address the problem.

Both are important, but not the same. What’s your take ?