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Talk - Mixing Product Design/Innovation and Agile
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, INC.– software studiosThad Scheer (Talk) Mixing Product Design/Innovation and Agile (Link to slides) This past Saturday the organizers of the AgileTechDC conference were kind...
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Unfolding Wholeness
UNFOLDING WHOLENESSGuy Kawasaki says it well in his book “The Art of the Start”, that those companies which are founded to change the world, to make the world a better place, to make meaning, are...
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Design and Design-Innovation
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– software studiosPosted by Thad Scheer Design and Design-Innovation Design is a word that software people need to keep re-learning. To an old-school software engineer, Design is a...
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Why We Are MAKERS Not DEVELOPERS
Just a few weeks back, I attended SXSW. At the conference it was clear we are in the midst of a “maker revolution”, referring to a do-it-yourself (DIY) community of people who create and build...
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Describe Agile in One Word
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– we make softwarePosted by Thad Scheer Describe Agile in One Word This morning I fell into a discussion on LinkedIn where the question was posed, “if you had to describe Agile vs....
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Designing for Language
Programming language design is a concern for every software developer. While most modern programing languages are technically capable of the same operations, the design of a language deeply...
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Does the Surface tablet lack a strong center?
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– a software companyPosted by Thad Scheer Does the new Surface tablet lack a Strong Center? Background: Theresa Smith has been doing a ton of work since 2007 developing a holistic...
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Loyalty Programs – Who should be loyal to whom?
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– a software companyPosted by Scott Pringle Loyalty Programs – Who should be loyal to whom? First of all the name is wrong – it should be a rewards program (some get this right)....
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Zeigarnik Modulation
This blog post was written by Theresa Smith, one of the Managing Partners at Sphere of Influence. She has a book in the works right now, check out some of her other postings and look out for her...
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Tech that finds bad guys (and girls too)
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– a software companyPosted by Thad Scheer Tech that finds bad guys (and girls too) A hotel worker in China entered Frank’s room while he was away at dinner and installed a new type...
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Faster - faster - faster
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, INC.– software designersThad Scheer Organizations today seem more interested in compressing development timelines than anything else. As well they should. Time to market rules!...
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Coexistence of Multiple Personalities
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– a software companyPosted by Thad Scheer Coexistence of Multiple Personalities Game Developer Sid Meier calls it the Covert Action rule, named after one of his less successful...
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SXSW 2013 – the short of it
By Theresa SmithI just got back from SXSW 2013. Okay, maybe it was a few weeks ago, but I definitely want to pass along some of what I learned there. The sessions I attended are listed below with my...
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Anyone can add features – but that doesn’t make it good
Are you adding, adding, adding to your products and calling it innovation? Do you have any process for considering the wholeness and strong-center of a product as a way of filtering the features that...
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Wake up! It’s the insider threat you need to worry about
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– a software companyPosted by Thad Scheer THE INSIDER THREAT IS DETECTABLEAND LOSSES ARE PREVENTABLE WITH EARLY DETECTIONEdward Snowden is the new face of the insider threat, the...
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Why the Government Insider Threat Program Will Fail
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– a software companyPosted by Thad Scheer Why the Government Insider Threat Program Will Fail President Obama has ordered federal employees to monitor the behavioral patterns of...
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If computers can beat Jeopardy! champions, why can't they detect the insider...
The world was awed two years ago when IBM’s Watson defeated Jeopardy! champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson’s brilliant victory reintroduced the potential of machine learning to the public....
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Category, Segment, and Brand – what’s the difference?
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE– a software companyPosted by Thad Scheer Product PositioningCategory, Segment, and Brand – what’s the difference? Recently I’ve been making a point to ask Scrum Product Owners I...
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