Uncategorized Lean Startups 2 March 2010 by adamf | 1 Comment on Lean Startups A Lean Startup is a startup company that combines Steve Blank’s Customer Development with Agile software development and other techniques that allow the company to iterate quickly to make products or services that customers want and will buy. Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and student of Steve Blank, and has written a lot about Lean […] Read more »
Uncategorized Scaling Microfinance 27 February 2010 by adamf | 1 Comment on Scaling Microfinance At Mifos, we interested in growing microfinance institutions quickly. Why? The problem is large: More than a third of the world’s population live in poverty: 2.7 billion people live in poverty out of a total world population of 6.7 billion. That’s 40% of the world living in poverty. (source: Wikipedia entry on Poverty) But MFIs […] Read more »
Uncategorized Wanting to be great 21 February 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment Jim says: “A want is a baby have. People need only join together in stating their goals, visualizing them, planning for them, and securing help from one another to achieve them. This is the heart and soul of teamwork.” I saw this on a small scale recently – my team worked on an important bug […] Read more » Enlightened Society greatness
Uncategorized Boot Camp 15 February 2010 by adamf | 7 Comments on Boot Camp Some programmers are ten times more productive than average programmers. Similarly, some teams are vastly more productive than other teams. We’ve all been on low productivity teams in our life. In fact, judging by the popularity of certain satirizations of mediocrity these low-productivity teams are more the rule than the exception. But there are exceptional […] Read more » Core Protocols Enlightened Society greatness teams
Uncategorized Online civic space 14 February 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment The gist of Ran’s quote that I referred to in the last post was really about Google Buzz, privacy and civic space, and only referred to physical workspaces as a metaphor… but even online, there are different kinds of privacy and public space. Bloggers enjoy the civic space of conversation in the blogosphere and willingly […] Read more » society
Uncategorized The economy of ideas, hierarchy and private space 14 February 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment Ran writes, “How much privacy a person has, is often an indication of what position they hold in a hierarchy. Who gets the corner office? Who gets a desk in the middle of an open area?” Yes, that is a cliché in corporate USA and Europe. However, Extreme Programming teams almost always sit together, and […] Read more » Agile software development Extreme Programming society teams
Uncategorized Welcome! 14 February 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment My idea for this blog is to participate in the discussion about creating a kinder, more gentle world. I’m passionate about creating enlightened society – one where people are effective at making each other happy, don’t coerce each other, and don’t hurt each other. I’m interested in creating happiness one-to-one, on teams, and on a […] Read more »