By Ben | Published:
March 18, 2009
If you are working with a distributed team, especially if that team is offshore, you should implement an “exchange program” to bring remote people together. The phone, email, instant messenger, and other similar tools can help with collaboration but they don’t have a fraction of the power of face-to-face communication.
Do you work with people in [...]
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By Ben | Published:
March 16, 2009
Nature is often neglected as a source of inspiration. There are many opportunities to look to nature to find solutions to our problems and inspiration for our thoughts.
Our minds and our thoughts are often shaped and blinded by growing up as children of industry. There was a world that existed before industrialization and there will [...]
By Ben | Published:
September 11, 2006
Since I haven’t posted much in a while, I thought I would throw up a couple of TIBs. I do have way more to say than usual and I’ll get around to posting again after I’m settled in to my new home and into my new job. In the meantime…
TIB #4: Passion matters (way more [...]
By Ben | Published:
June 23, 2006
Design matters.
Design tends to be overlooked, but it’s extremely important. It matters in products, it matters in software, it matters everywhere.
By Ben | Published:
June 18, 2006
A while back, I wrote about defining my TIBs. I’m still not done, but I’m going to randomly post a few from time-to-time. I don’t have them listed in any particular order, but here is TIB #1:
Custom software is too expensive.
There are many factors that eventually come together and make the world of custom software [...]
