Webvisions 2008 presentation of Faster Cheaper Better by David Verba

1. Faster, Cheaper, Better
emmet labs David Verba
david@adaptivepath.com

2. SUBJECT TO CHANGE
creating great products and services for an uncertain world
Short, but powerful. Easy to read,
yet profound. I’ve been searching
for just this book: the one perfect
book that summarizes the essence
of modern product design. This is
it... I will use it in my courses for
MBA students. You should use it
for, well, for everyone.”
— Don Norman,
author Design of Everyday Things

3. Fast Cheap
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5. Fast Cheap
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6. 8 years ago
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7. 2 years ago
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8. two geeks
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10. Beyond Usability 2.0 10

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13. “We can’t keep up with them....”
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14. What makes this possible now?
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15. stability
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16. APIs
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21. frameworks
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24. new things

25. silverlight & air
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28. scaling costs are getting
cheaper
costs
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30. Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

31. What remains hard?
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33. collaboration

34. agile vs. ucd

35. Designan activity ‘D’)
Design as (Capital

36. configuration management

37. What does that leave us with?
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38. financial risk

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41. below the radar

42. What is being built?
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43. applications for two

44. applications for pennies

45. prototypes

46. Who is building them?
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47. visual basic

48. “blobbing”
www.allaboutolive.com.au
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50. small teams
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51. side projects
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52. two geeks
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53. Faster, Cheaper, Better
emmet labs David Verba
david@adaptivepath.com