Adam Kalsey
This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
Where Does Product Marketing Belong? March 6, 2026 The debate about whether PMM reports to product or marketing has a simple answer once you ask the right question.
The danger of doing too much December 15, 2005 Developers don’t think in terms of simplicity.
Opinion tracking April 19, 2003 If you want to know what people think about your products, don’t ask them to tell you. Listen to what they tell others.
Sorting Amazon October 10, 2002 Amazon’s backend is showing and they are revealing some interesting flaws in their system.
Agile requirements September 19, 2002 How to use solid requirements management principles in an agile environment.
GPL restricts innovation? September 17, 2002 LawMeme looks at government-sponsored open source software.
Agile gloss September 13, 2002 Can agile methodolgies work on large-scale projects? This New Architect article promises to tell us, but it doesn’t quite make it.
KM Myths September 3, 2002 These seven Knowledge Management mistakes happen in a variety of software implementations.
CVS for Web devlopers July 30, 2002 How to use CVS for Web site development.
Anthology of Requirements quotations June 30, 2002 Requirements Engineering Proverbs, Maxims, Sayings, Quotations and Urban Wisdom is a list of quotations that...
Unit Testing May 7, 2002 Sticky Minds has a series of Word documents on Unit Testing Guidelines. A lot of...
Process Chain April 20, 2002 SPC E-ssentials provides a list of activites neccessary to manage software projects. "Meeting [software] delivery...
AOL product not good enough for employees March 23, 2002 Some time back AOL Time Warner dictated that all employees would use a custom version...
Warships and software March 21, 2002 What does the accidental sinking of a 17th century warship have to do with software...
Software Lemons March 21, 2002 Most product manufacturers are held responsible for ensuring their products work as advertised. Software companies...
Criteria for success March 16, 2002 The Rational Edge | Understanding the Elephant: "I once refactored some badly written code and...
Newsletter quality February 20, 2002 At some point I must have given my email address to Classmates. I don’t remember...
The Art of Use Cases February 20, 2002 Software Productivity Center E-ssentials | The Art of Use Cases: "In order to create a...
Requirements Tools February 20, 2002 StickyMinds also has a list of requirements tools, although many of the tools are more...
Bug categorization February 20, 2002 StickyMinds.com | Categorizing Defects by Eliminating "Severity" and "Priority": "I recommend eliminating the Severity and...
Secure by design February 20, 2002 The Register | 'Penetrate and patch' e-business security is grim: "Application security flaws introduced early...
Measuring Success February 16, 2002 The Rational Edge | Success Criteria Breed Success: "Ill-defined, unrealistic, or poorly communicated success criteria...
Process for one February 16, 2002 The Rational Edge | A Software Development Process for a Team of One: "Who said...
Bug Costs February 15, 2002 Billion Dollar Bugs: "Your bugs, design flaws, and security holes could cost your customers billions...
What Clients Want (part2) February 15, 2002 winterspeack.com’s Zimran Ahmed disagrees with Joel Spolsky’s article "The solution is not to pander to...
What Clients Want February 15, 2002 Joel on Software | The Iceberg Secret, Revealed: "Assume that your customers don’t know what...
Customer testing February 13, 2002 The Archives page at ClickZ has an interesting problem. There are duplicate titles listed in...
Risky Business January 23, 2002 Does innovation always provide a competetive advantage?
Inside the Wayback Machine January 22, 2002 When the Internet Archive needed massive amounts of storage and processing power, they turned to arrays of inexpensive machines.
Discover your inner hamster January 20, 2002 Inefficient, manual processes make life difficult for your customers.
Make it simple January 18, 2002 Business Week has an interview with Dennis Boyle from IDEO. He says, "People don’t want...
Maniacal Focus January 17, 2002 If your company has a competitive weakness, you should make it your number one priority to overcome that weakness. Even better is to turn it around and make it a strength.
Cover Fire January 7, 2002 Joel On Software: "The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on...
Intro to XP October 9, 2001 If your current development process has you bogged down in bureaucracy, you may want to...
Gartner foolishness September 25, 2001 Joel on Software "Gartner seems to suffer the common but moronic falacy that new or...
Know September 25, 2001 Elegant Hack: "Know your audience. Know your business. Know your technology. Build."...