The Mindjet Labs

It's been a few weeks since my last post.  Somehow time just passes when you're not looking.  There's a John Lennon quote for this - “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”  Or working on other problems. I'm somewhat disappointed in the dearth of comments on the Six ...

Two of six elements of greatness remain in this series of software platform blog posts. These are the topics of Balance and Hierarchy. Balance? Like On One Foot? With respect to a software platform, balance speaks less to the notion of equality and more to the relationships among different behaviors of the platform.  Not every aspect of a ...

What are the essential characteristics of a great software solutions platform?  A previous post in this blog talked about variation and evolution as two of six elements. In dealing with software platforms, variation is how the major themes of the platform emerge.  Related but different, evolution pertains to both how we understand the ...