by Phil Morle | Aug 20, 2012 | Startup Science
As an Engineer, the insights from the 37signals Rework book resonate deeply and seem quite obvious. Over the years similar ideas have being preached by myself and other Engineers, although the messages never seems to stick with management. 37signals, being a...
by Phil Morle | Aug 12, 2012 | Startup Science
Don’t assume that because no one has solved a huge problem that they haven’t tried. Don’t assume that you can try better. Don’t assume that you can’t try better, solve the problem and make the world a better place. Go for...
by Phil Morle | Aug 9, 2012 | Startup Science
What did you learn yesterday? What are you going to learn today? What’s stopping you from learning?
by Phil Morle | Aug 8, 2012 | Startup Science
We get a lot of questions on what a Lean Product Manager is. Hopefully this will help clarify this very unique role in the Pollenizer Talent universe. What do they do? Lean Product Managers bridge the problem and solution spaces. In the problem space, the product...
by Phil Morle | Jul 31, 2012 | Startup Science
Yes, I love focus, but I also love variety. One of the reasons why I love startups is because you are one step away from every single part of a business. In a single day I can be working on; Product Sales Finance Marketing PR Team Legals Design Customer support...
by Phil Morle | Jul 16, 2012 | Startup Science
When was the last time you had a conversation with the team about work processes? With the runway running short and your back against the walls, it’s easy to skip this meeting and press forward with what feels like more valuable work. However I find retrospectives one...
by Phil Morle | Jul 3, 2012 | Startup Science
During my 11 years working in the Mobile industry (1993-2004), I was amazed at the rapid speed in which mobile handset technology evolved. I fondly recall the first time my boss at Optus gave me my first mobile. It was an Ericsson GH197, a big old thing with an aerial...
by Phil Morle | Jun 17, 2012 | Startup Science
I was on the innovation panel at the Salesforce.com Cloudforce event. Was a really good panel (not a bunch of short talks) and James O’Loghlin did a great job moderating. Key topics; Introducing #flearn to the world. Do we have a culture of innovation in...
by Phil Morle | Jun 13, 2012 | Startup Science
To boost the amount of great failure in order to embrace the learnings and explodify the successes, we came up with the following hashtag; #flearn Of course it’s a combination of Fail plus Learn. Simple. Short. Brilliant. Brief history; Australia doesn’t...
by Phil Morle | Jun 4, 2012 | Startup Science
This past, very wet, weekend a small contingent of Pollenizer’s participated in the volunteer run GovHack 2012. Armed with government published data, we set our sights on providing a forum for residents to contact their local representative. After two days of...
by Phil Morle | May 17, 2012 | Startup Science
Tonight, I had the privilege of speaking to a crowd of startup-types at the WeTeachSydney: Startup and Business Speed Teaching event at Fishburners in Ultimo. My topic was “Lean Startup Methodologies” and the objective was to try and get across some key...
by Phil Morle | May 15, 2012 | Startup Science
As a developer at Pollenizer I often get asked what you need to do to learn how to get good at development. The obvious response would be to tell them to get a computer science degree, and have some good teachers. Get a junior role somewhere and learn from those who...
