Scrum, by Jeff Sutherland — Book report and highlights
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland is part memoir and part introductory practical guide to the Scrum …
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Zipcar – idealism and the realpolitik of scaling a business
Very interesting article about Zipcar’s turnaround strategy on Inc. Worth reading for the insights on growing a business by the numbers, but also the story …
Music business in flux (still)
When the web touches an industry it disrupts and then absorbs it, to paraphrase Kevin Kelly. One of the first it touched, disrupted and absorbed …
More disruption, please
Large companies can innovate, but to do so they must consciously remain open to new actors or counterintuitively disrupt existing relationships to force the formation …
Things I learned from Ed Catmull
A few months ago I heard Ed Catmull, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, give a talk about leading creative organisations. Apart from …
Business model prisoners
While most companies become prisoners of their business models, one way to deal with this is to have a strong strategy that means you know …
Build-to-run
Like Alan Patrick of Broadstuff, I’m a fan of Techmeme, the technology news aggregator that tells you at a glance what the hot tech/web industry …
Lazy narratives and how to be wrong
Apple-bashing is a game a lot of people these days. John Gruber at Daring Fireball is challenging the emerging narrative of the company’s inevitable decline …
The all-new Brilliant Noise
It was a big week for me, with my business Brilliant Noise entering a new and very different phase.
Making social business a reality – Notes and slides from my SoCon 2011 talk
Making Social Business a Reality View more presentations from Antony Mayfield These are the notes and slides from my talk at SoCon 2011 conference today, …