Getting Real
It’s so easy to be involved in something that’s innovative and exciting, and just watch it start to grow. However, it may get to a point where folks need to be brought in that want to do things the old fashioned way, and it could actually start to impact the way you think.
This happened to me.
I thought that “all those books and theories” that had been written time and time again had to be right, and I just needed to “get them” in order to make the jump to that next level of comprehension. I was thinking that you needed all this process and documentation just to flush an idea out.
Man, I’m glad I got the wake-up smack that I needed this week to jolt me back into coherence.
That “smack”, worked in tandem with the book from 37 Signals, Getting Real to get my thinking back on the track it needed to be.
The best way to describe this work is Product Management for Web2.0. At least, that’s all that I could think about when I read it last night. I don’t know if that’s how the authors intended it to read, but seeing as that’s my day job and I’m a developer by night, I can’t help but blur the lines together.
Trust me, folks — $19 is well worth it, in my opinion.
