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Thursday, April 1, 2010

A Tweet on "Success"

I've read a tweet today which got my attention : "Sucesso? Entregue rápido e de forma frequente, receba feedback contínuo, mude a direção conforme a necessidade.E seja transparente."

An English version : "Success? Release quickly and frequently, receive continuously feedbacks, change the direction following the needs. And be transparent."


I know smart and experimented people will understand this sentence the right way. However, they probably already know these concepts. I then take as hypothesis that writing this sentence on Twitter has a purpose mainly for people not knowing it. In this case, I feel uncomfortable in the sense this sentence might be misinterpreted in so many ways. I would like then to clarify some implicit concepts behind the ones in the sentence : 

  1. Release quickly and frequently : 
    • you then adhere to incremental methodologies (like agile ones ... you don't?).
    • quickly :
      • does not mean that you should release something which does not bring anything valuable. 
      • advantage it allows you to receive feedbacks sooner
    • frequently :
      • does not mean releases are mandatory.
      • It means that you should release any added value stuffs of what you're working on frequently (time-to-market, feedbacks sap)
      • corollary, don't try to release frequently any bullshit ... it is just waste of time, money, etc...
      • added value is something which already answers some needs (see next point on following needs)
  2. receive continuously feedbacks means
    • exists at least one way to receive feedbacks (or if it is possible, asking for them pro-actively)
    • you take really these feedbacks into account
    • you take actions
  3. change the direction following the needs
    • means you know how to explicitly identify the needs at their roots!
    • for instance, for customers you need to measure what they need.
      • Avoid try to feel what they might like. Prefer being a scientist and discover/measure what are their needs. 
      • Avoid trying to artificially create some need and pushing it to them!
  4. Be transparent : from the communication, value and morale point of views.

Of course, all this could not be written in 140 characters ... but I thought it deserves a small post. (thoug this post is not meant to be exhaustive neither.)

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