Month: January 2014
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Scaling Agile At Spotify
One of my favourite examples of an approach to scaling agile structures is detailed in this paper by Henrik Kniberg and Anders Ivarsson talking about Spotify's model of Tribes, Squads, Chapters and Guilds (in fact the guys at Undercurrent, whom I talk to below, link to it from their site). Spotify has scaled more rapidly than most…
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Holacracy at Undercurrent
I was fascinated to see a Tweet from Clay Parker Jones talking about how they had implemented Holacracy at Undercurrent. Holacracy intrigues me since it is such a disruptive idea that plays well to many of the things I bang on about here, and the guys at Undercurrent have been publishing some smart thinking around…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: The Google Music Timeline "shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates)". Cool. The power of data. Amazon knows you so well it wants…
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No Dead Ends
The concept of 'no dead ends' relates to the idea that wherever a user is on your site or your app there is always a next step, or somewhere else appealing or interesting for users to go that they don't have to work hard to find. Links, images and other content that are contextually relevant…
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Micro-Multinational Companies
“If the late 20th Century was the age of the multinational company, the early 21st will be the age of the micro multinational: small companies that operate globally” Hal Varian, Google Chief Economist, quoted at the Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh. And just one of a number reasons (from this Wired post on the subject) why…
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What Makes a ‘Super Successful’ Company?
I really liked this list from Sam Altman (Co-founder of Loopt) on what makes 'super successful' companies. Go read the whole thing but here's a precis of the list: They are obsessed with the quality of the product/experience. They are obsessed with talent. They can explain the vision for the company in a few clear…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
My favourite links from the week, curated by Fraggl: An uncommonly straightforward, believable set of tech trends from Frog Design A good, smart piece from Ben Hammersley on wearable technology as 'the third wave in computing' A useful summary from Shane Parrish of Clay Christensen's Innovator's DNA: 'The Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators' The story of how Scott…
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How Reddit Has Changed Over Time
I came across this post (posted in March last year) in which Michigan State University PhD student Randy Olson analysed the posts that users submitted to Reddit between its inception in 2005 up to November 2012 in order to retrace the evolution of the community. Olson took a snapshot view of the most active subreddits, ranked by number of posts…