http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/06/04/system-obituary/ It's all about the human experience Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:50:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/06/04/system-obituary/comment-page-1/#comment-29082 Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Tip of the Week: Focusing with a Tombstone « Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:00:16 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/06/04/system-obituary/#comment-29082 [...] Tip of the Week: Focusing with a Tombstone Here’s an interesting little productivity idea from dancingmango: when you’re trying to understand the successes and failures of a system, have the current users of the system write a tombstone or obituary for it. For example, I recently gave up on a particular shareware to-do application, with results that might be summarized this way: [...] [...] Tip of the Week: Focusing with a Tombstone Here’s an interesting little productivity idea from dancingmango: when you’re trying to understand the successes and failures of a system, have the current users of the system write a tombstone or obituary for it. For example, I recently gave up on a particular shareware to-do application, with results that might be summarized this way: [...]

]]> http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/06/04/system-obituary/comment-page-1/#comment-28777 dancingmango » It’s not what you’ve done, it’s what you’ve acheived Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:47:26 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/06/04/system-obituary/#comment-28777 [...] This is a good way to assess where you are going in life.  It’s not so much what you’ve done, it’s more about what you’ve achieved.  Great, so you’ve written a marketing plan, you are an expert in Java, .net and Ruby on Rails.  But what have you actually achieved?  What did that marketing plan result in delivering?  Who did you delight with the applications you built in Java, .net or Ruby on Rails?  What value have you personally contributed to the world?  What would your epitaph be? [...] [...] This is a good way to assess where you are going in life.  It’s not so much what you’ve done, it’s more about what you’ve achieved.  Great, so you’ve written a marketing plan, you are an expert in Java, .net and Ruby on Rails.  But what have you actually achieved?  What did that marketing plan result in delivering?  Who did you delight with the applications you built in Java, .net or Ruby on Rails?  What value have you personally contributed to the world?  What would your epitaph be? [...]

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