Comments on: It’s Leaving Stuff Out That’s Hard http://frontofficebox.com/2009/02/04/its-leaving-stuff-out-thats-hard/ Sales Management Strategies, Tactics, and Sales Probability Process Management Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:39:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://frontofficebox.com/2009/02/04/its-leaving-stuff-out-thats-hard/#comment-499 admin Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:19:24 +0000 http://frontofficebox.com/?p=690#comment-499 Thanks John I'll check out the book - sounds interesting Steve Thanks John

I’ll check out the book – sounds interesting

Steve

]]> By: John Reddish Get Results http://frontofficebox.com/2009/02/04/its-leaving-stuff-out-thats-hard/#comment-497 John Reddish Get Results Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:18:58 +0000 http://frontofficebox.com/?p=690#comment-497 I see both the beauty in the elegantly simple and in the brevity urgency overwhelming all communications. Where once we savored the story and the intricacies of plot, we moved first to the journalistic inverted pyramid (to help us prioritize and not have to read on to the end), then on the the sound byte, and now to 140 characters and spaces preformed in real time. There is much to know, much we want to know and an increasing understanding that the more we know the less it is. As we now tweet meetings with the President of the US in real time - scooping the journalists just outside, and Flip Video our news and interviews for instant uploads and broadcasts, I have to wonder if it is all that desirable? When it comes to streamlining software, I am concerned that with targeted functionality we risk becoming dysfunctional, of becoming a heap of almost complete possibilities that just doesn't come together. I am all for special purpose software that is easy to deploy, use and master, but I am concerned that unless we develop and build it ALL with an eye to interoperability [if we keep our black box thinking and proprietary ways] that our productivity will grind to a disconnected halt. Simplicity, YES. Plug and play, YES. Build a stronger overall platform, YES. But make all of it open source, so that, even if it is a jigsaw puzzle, we have a chance at putting the picture together. A good book on software over-building (and then what!) is Goldratt's "Necessary But Not Sufficient." John Reddish, www.thesuccessionplanner.com, helping entrepreneurs and other leaders who want to master growth, transition and succession to get results faster, less painfully and in ways that work for them. This happens through consulting, coaching/mentoring, training and/or speaking. I see both the beauty in the elegantly simple and in the brevity urgency overwhelming all communications. Where once we savored the story and the intricacies of plot, we moved first to the journalistic inverted pyramid (to help us prioritize and not have to read on to the end), then on the the sound byte, and now to 140 characters and spaces preformed in real time. There is much to know, much we want to know and an increasing understanding that the more we know the less it is. As we now tweet meetings with the President of the US in real time – scooping the journalists just outside, and Flip Video our news and interviews for instant uploads and broadcasts, I have to wonder if it is all that desirable?

When it comes to streamlining software, I am concerned that with targeted functionality we risk becoming dysfunctional, of becoming a heap of almost complete possibilities that just doesn’t come together. I am all for special purpose software that is easy to deploy, use and master, but I am concerned that unless we develop and build it ALL with an eye to interoperability [if we keep our black box thinking and proprietary ways] that our productivity will grind to a disconnected halt.
Simplicity, YES. Plug and play, YES. Build a stronger overall platform, YES. But make all of it open source, so that, even if it is a jigsaw puzzle, we have a chance at putting the picture together.

A good book on software over-building (and then what!) is Goldratt’s “Necessary But Not Sufficient.”

John Reddish, http://www.thesuccessionplanner.com, helping entrepreneurs and other leaders who want to master growth, transition and succession to get results faster, less painfully and in ways that work for them. This happens through consulting, coaching/mentoring, training and/or speaking.

]]> By: widespreadram http://frontofficebox.com/2009/02/04/its-leaving-stuff-out-thats-hard/#comment-496 widespreadram Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:03:27 +0000 http://frontofficebox.com/?p=690#comment-496 Absolutely agree about Less Features. I hate having to wade through piles of stuff I don't need to get to the stuff I do! Absolutely agree about Less Features.

I hate having to wade through piles of stuff I don’t need to get to the stuff I do!

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