Bulding Software Like Curitiba

Building software like Curitiba. A TED inspired drive to work.

“Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.”

How would our decisions change?

$1,000,000

$1,000,00X

$100,000

$1,000,000 vs. $100,0006,667 vs. 667 hrs.

42 Months vs. 4 Months

That would be a drastic shift in

thinking. We might even have to be *gulp* creative.

We might have to think differently

about a few things. Like…

Adopting anOperating Expenditure

vs. Capital Expenditure

Mindsetyagni, ifm, tvm, irr, sxn, release early

Living the practices behind the Agile Manifestofocus on value, simplicity, welcome change, trust, motivated individuals

Focus on Getting Realflex scope, less software, constraints, start with no, actions instead of words

Stop talking about efficiency, and start focusing

on effectiveness.

I think we could build better

software, for better markets, with better

people…

And it can go a lot further than just

building software…

30 minutes vs. 3 minutesmeetings vs. discussions

20 Minutes vs. 2 Minutesdrive to work vs. work from home

100 pages vs. 10 wordsbusiness plan vs. mantra

1400 vs. 140 charactersblog post vs. twitter post

60 minutes vs. 6 minutespresentations vs. lightning talks

Where else does this apply?

Thanks!

Ben Carey

www.hellokensho.com

www.thesherpaproject.com

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

Related Stuff

http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/189

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Lerner

Images

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curitiba

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Jaime_Lerner_May_2004.jpg