Posts with keyword: 37signals

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Less is More

Mon Jun 5 10:32:00 2006

Jason Fried is the CEO of 37 Signals, a company that's garnered attention for delivering great Web-based tools like Basecamp and Writeboard. I've used these in my lab at BYU to great effect. At IT Conversations, however, we found that they just weren't right for the project management tasks we had. Obviously, these tools aren't right for everyone and that's the story. In one of the IT Conversation shows I really liked last week, Jason delivers a short (12 min) talk from Web 2.0 called "Less is More." In the talk, Jason talks about how to win by "under-doing"
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Getting Real

Fri Mar 3 10:33:00 2006

Last year at ETech (see you next week, BTW), I wrote about Jason Fried's talk on lessons learned building Basecamp, the online project management system from 37Signals. The talk was interesting and full of wisdom on how to build Web applications. now the folks at 37Signals have come out with suggestions in bookform, called Getting Real. The book is only available as a PDF. There are some sample chapters online, including one called Meetings Are Toxic (PDF). I've got a copy; there's some good stuff there.
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