.. to represent 'the customer' and engineers have to pitch their products and ideas to this chair, in customer language. Seems like a great way to remind teams of the importance of not getting lost in what they think is needed and instead ask what the customer wants/needs. (2/2)
This week in #CBSDigitalLiteracy@goldenaimee1 colorfully discussed the need to think of your actual customers when developing products, which she has seen as a real challenge when working in tech. To drive this point home she leaves a chair open at all of her meetings.. (1/2)
@BrandonHoffmanC Fun Fact: Sonder was founded by a few friends of friends here in Montreal and I actually spent time working the night shift, 11 PM to 7 AM, as their on demand concierge back in 2013 when they were still called Flatbook
Epic Games, Spotify, and Match Group are pushing states to legislate away app fees from Google and Apple based them creating a monopoly for the firms. Only in tech can the little guy in a lawsuit be worth 10s of billions of dollars #cbsdigitalliteracy#lessmoneymoreproblems
This week @aviflombaum explained the key to great tech products, 'making something hard to do, easy,' and walked through how he drives towards that outcome. Always interesting to see how even those who are the most tech literate, still rely on pen and paper #cbsdigitalliteracy
In class 3, we learned about the transition to cloud computing from traditional server based systems. The benefits are clear, agility, elasticity, and low-start up and ramp-up costs. The transition to cloud-based computing demonstrated by energy consumption is depicted below.