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Scale, and what's next

Để bắt đầu bài viết, mình muốn chia sẻ 1 dữ liệu dễ hiểu thể hiện sự tăng trưởng của Tiki trong vài năm vừa qua. Đó là hiện tại, doanh số mỗi ngày của Tiki còn cao hơn doanh số ... cả tháng tại thời điểm mình mới tham gia

On staying relevant

We all know about Nokia, once the king of mobile phone and then, became nothing. Thing we might not know is if our company, our team, ourself is the next Nokia :) I always think that a little pressure here and there will help us grow, and thinking about that question

The hard thing

1. Truly understand the "why" Why should we adopt this new shiny language/framework/database other than that being ... well new & shiny ? Why should we adopt Scrum other than that being recommended by ... so many gurus ? 2. Care to ask "what else ?" Is this the best option we have, is

Open mind

Qua nay trên mạng đang khá hot phần gọi vốn của 1 công ty trên Shark Tank có vẻ hơi "chém", có 1 số bạn hỏi mình thấy sao vì trong phần trình bày có đề cập đến công ty đang làm (và hiển nhiên là chê :D). Mới đầu

Làm sản phẩm

1 team nói chung (không chỉ team làm sản phẩm) sẽ bao gồm đối ngoại và đối nội * Đối ngoại là làm sao cho những team khác, những phòng ban khác hiểu được giá trị công việc của team mình, thấy team mình ngon (looks good), từ đó hỗ trợ

What does a product guy do

I like to look at and structure things from different angle. In term of the product life cycle, a product guy needs to involve * before the product is made: he needs to evaluate thing such as * is this product/feature actually needed ? * how it will work ? * when it will be

Tùy

Có 1 bạn trong team đề nghị viết lại module "tính toán gợi ý đặt hàng" bằng event sourcing, mình chia sẻ một số suy nghĩ cụ thể về bài toán này nói riêng và cách mình tiếp cận việc "viết lại module" như thế nào Các vấn đề cần

Keep getting better

People recently ask me about the product roadmap and while this is not a complete list, they're what I see as must-have in an e-commerce company Product/Tech must enable the company to do the following stuffs 1. Business as usual This means customer can use our website to buy

Feel young

I happened to write a mobile app using Exponent [https://work.plonely.com/2016/09/02/mobile-app-for-a-web-programmer-with-exponentjs/] few days ago. It was a great framework. During the course, I joined their official Slack channel and asked a few questions, talked to several Exponent devs who are very friendly and supportive

Form over substance

This is something that we're easy to fall into. "Form" is how it looks and substance is what it really brings to the table at the end of the day. If you don't care about "form", your idea/project will have less chance for people to notice. It's bad because

Attitude

Both got the same ending but their attitudes are much different Everpix (US) http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence Deca (VN) > Nếu các bạn hỏi tại sao DECA.vn đóng cửa trong khi phát triển vũ bão, có đội ngũ vận hành

Managing Product in a company-that-grew-up

If it's just your personal project, your team, your startup then product management might be figuring out what customers love and iterate your product accordingly. However, in a company that grew up, these are the questions that I have to answer daily * How should I get people to understand that

Quote from "How will you measure your life"

interesting book [www.amazon.com/How-Will-Measure-Your-Life/dp/0062102419] > The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That’s a dangerous way to build a strategy. my note: > Only after you understand the relative

Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture

> The economist who helped Walt Disney's theme park dream become what it is today[1] said that the most important thing he learned through it all was the profound difference between a "no, because" person and a "yes, if" person.If you ask many people an audacious "Can we do

Pitfalls of startup

People don't share the same vision and passion In a normal company, even if people don't share the same vision, they still can execute the plan and contribute value. For a startup (with limited resources) to proceed (or for a normal company that wants to be more efficient), people need

Working with engineers

It's been a while since I last work with engineers and this is to note several interesting things * It's exciting to talk with them because most of them are really into their gigs. They like the stuffs they build and want to make you feel that * They usually think of

Choosing

[https://work.plonely.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/3592960452_16bbf96918_o.png] I just said "no more"

You're only limited to what you *think* so

How much it would cost you to travel around the world ? Even though I did quite a lot of travel [http://wandering.plonely.com], I didn't really think 'bout "travel around the world", yet. It seems so far away and expensive. Until I saw this [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?

On ending war between sales and marketing

This is a very true issue and I found this excellent article "Ending the war between sales and marketing" by Philip Kotler He offered 2 key advice: * Disciplined communication between Sales and Marketing * Shared goal & metrics While the 2nd one is hard to implement due to the complex organization structure,

Leadership versus management

Leadership is more 'bout doing the right things, management is more 'bout doing things right Leadership is more 'bout taking risk, management is more 'bout mitigate them

Kể chuyện đi làm công ti nước ngoài [part 1]

1. Ai cũng là Manager (-) Thông thường 1 cái văn phòng, thì sẽ có chừng vài ba chục người có chức danh là "manager". Nghe riết thì thấy quen, nhưng thỉnh thoảng cần phải dịch ra tiếng Việt thì lại phân vân: "giám đốc" thì to quá, "trưởng nhóm"

Simple tips for those doing IT in a non-IT company

I just completed the 3rd annual IT audit for some distributor. In term of the capability to keep the daily operation smooth, their IT manager got it quite right. However, whenever I talk to the people there, I usually got these complains * How come our IT system always got issues

It's not always 'bout the technology

During my work as an IT manager, there are 2 kinds of customer * 1 who doesn't realize the benefit of IT * 1 who over-confident 'bout the benefit of IT For the 1st group, we need to give them some real demo, some data, some endorsement from other people to convince

read and forget what you read

That is what I keep reminding myself whenever I read some books. I grabbed this idea from some kungfu movie and it makes sense : when you forget what you read, it becomes your knowledge. Another reason is that the knowledge you gain will make you realize the gap between what

radical or incremental ?

Have you ever wondered * if you like to make radical changes or incremental changes ? * if you prefer scorecard/360 degree feedback or just something more simple like "you're sux" and "it's kool man" ? * if you prefer stable and friendly or free and wild ? * if you prefer to be someone in

don't be evil motto

nice article from TechCrunch [http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/15/twitteruh-oh-not-another-do-no-evil-company/], this reminds me of Jack Neo case [http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_499084.html]. He likes to explicitly insert moral lessons into his movies, and he gradually violated some. Those who create the line tend to

to help is different than to actually help

I occasionally think 'bout this and recently found a veryinteresting article [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703429304575095423719500154.html?mod=WSJ_hp_editorsPicks] . Basically, to help people make you feel happy, but it doesn't always mean that what you did madethem happy. Currently I'm not  into community services so occasionally doing

The 10 Essential Rules for Slowing Down and Enjoying Life More

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT Post written by Leo Babauta [http://zenhabits.net/about/]. Follow me on Twitter [http://twitter.com/zen_habits]. It’s an irony of our modern lives that while technology is continually invented that saves us time, we use that time to do