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Blogging ROI

For those who do not want to accept the apparent ROI of blogging, Charlene Li lays it down (via Weblog Tools Collection) in a language that the corporate world understands. It is quite relevant as the...

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Theory Of Constraints And Software ROI

The real world is ridden with constraints of various degrees. The constraints curb our options and sometimes close doors on various opportunities. Let us look at some examples where value was provided...

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Trying Something And Using Something

Jason Fried has an unfinished post on difference between trying something and using something. Though he has not concluded it, I agree with his observation that most of the products today are made for...

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Writing New Software

Mark Pilgrim writes about writing new text editors, or more importantly about garden path software. Here’s the basic problem: you’re writing a text editor. Stop doing that. It’s 2007. Saying to...

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Stories To Understand The Problem

Gautam Ghosh explains how stories can be effective tools for diagnosis. Although Gautam discusses from the perspective of a HR and OD consultant, the need for diagnosis and understanding the business...

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Community, ROI And Effort

Kathy Sierra very elegantly charts the connection between user community and ROI. The more your users participate the less money you need. It can be frustrating when you cannot exactly pinpoint the ROI...

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Software As A Solution

JP muses about ROI of IT. It is quite ironical that as IT seems to be getting more critical it is getting more difficult to measure its ROI. I believe there is a lot of difference in believing in IT as...

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Cost Of Software Is Not Only The Money

Tom DeMarco has an excellent essay on Why Does Software Cost So Much? it is a view from within the software industry, replying not to the question, but saying that it is in fact not costly. I agree...

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ROI Of Software Is Not About The Software

I recently met a software professional who was evaluating a software product to be bought and used in their company. As the discussion progressed, I realized that most of the metrics that he talked...

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Minimalism Is About ROI

Minimalism is not accepted very well. It is often rejected as an approach to present a product that no one wants to use. Minimalism, if done for its own sake, will always find it difficult to get nods....

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