By Eric Krock on April 18, 2011
Don’t assume your users will perform perfectly. Assume they will get tired, busy, distracted, hurried, and interrupted and will make mistakes. Then design your products accordingly. Read full article ...
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By Eric Krock on March 29, 2011
Your mind is only as free as you make it. Beware unchallenged assumptions. They are a prison for your mind that you build yourself! Read full article ...
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By Eric Krock on March 24, 2011
Automated attacks are a greater threat than ever, so allow users to pick hard passwords that combine uppercase, lowercase, numeric, and punctuation characters. Read full article ...
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By Eric Krock on March 17, 2011
People are rarely rewarded for asking difficult questions with expensive answers. Ask the hard questions, and pursue them wherever they may lead! Read full article ...
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By Eric Krock on March 15, 2011
When doing product or project management, pay special attention to big potential risks that are causing no symptoms today. It is these risks that you’re most likely to underinvest in addressing and therefore these risks that are most likely to cause big problems in the future. Read full article ...
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By Eric Krock on March 14, 2011
One lesson from Fukushima is already clear: when all of your failover systems can fail simultaneously due to the same cause, you don’t have redundancy. You have a single point of failure with multiple moving parts. Read full article ...
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By Eric Krock on January 19, 2011
Homeland security’s cancellation of the $1 billion electronic border fence and Boeing’s new delays on the Dreamliner demonstrate that project management is still an unsolved problem and the costs of failure can be enormous. Read full article ...
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