Why do a rapid development ? Speed - Improve your ability to perform tasks quickly, even under pressure. Adaptation / Agility - Learn to hit a moving target and adapt to radical shifts in design and requirements. Hindsight - Benefit from a high frequency of postmortems and a quick turnaround on action-verses-consequence lessons. Fun - Have a good time. Laugh at yourself. After all, you’re really quite pathetic. Balance - Learn to govern the balance between speed and quality, between risk and reward.

My friend TP always use to remark that Keyboards and mouse need a major revamp, for according to him, they have been in our midst for too long a time.May be he should have a look at the following snaps :

Standardize and you simplify lives;everyone learns the system only once. But don’t standardize too soon; you may be locked in to a primitive technology, or you may have introduced rules that turn out to be grossly inefficient, even error-inducing  – DONALD A. NORMAN

I have tried out a lot of typepad compatible desktop blogging clients. However, none came anywhere close to my satisfaction. Finally, I stumbled upon Zoundry. I am pretty impressed by the software. Kudos to the developers! Ha, I am relieved that I don’t have to use post entry link on typepad to blog.

The third model that Zhao discusses in “Art of profitability” is Multi component profit model where a business tries to leverage the base product and builds different related business components and markets it to customers. Unlike the pyramid model where the product is placed at various price points and customers themselves are placed at various segments and finds himself at each price point. In this model, the customer can be at each of the price point.