Official Google Blog: Project 10^100

Official Google Blog: Project 10^100

I few hours ago, I posted an idea to Google's project 10^100.

It's a simple idea but I think it's hard to turn to reality:

1. build a web community
2. people can come to this community and write down what they like and what's their style.
3. Match via following ways
a. System match the people together via their style and their preferences.
b. People can write down their style and where they will show up in which day
4. System can give them some symbols to those people who might meet together(in the subway or shopping mall, etc)
5. People takes photos or leave messages for their meets.

Source of idea: more and more people feel alone in the modern cities, we found a way for them to meet similar people and make friends each other, or each just for funs.

Imaging:
100 cars will meet together in a weekend 3 PM at Wangfujing Street, and they wear the same color clothes or wear same brand hats.

Give people a chance to know you, give people a chance to talk to new face friends. And then keep in touch in a community.
I think this will solve many social or mentality problems of people.

Hope project 1-^100 can find more funny ideas from people.

Ajaxian » What if we didn’t lump all “accessibility” requirements together?

Ajaxian » What if we didn’t lump all “accessibility” requirements together?

This is the similar question with my last post.
What if we didn't have all "accessibility, usability and availability, etc" requirements?

Using prototypes to demostrate your design is okay, but it may need more involvement of user.

It's easy to demo or create a new page, but it's hard to define the BEST.

80/20 policy is used here. And we need user's agreement on the requirements defined.
This is the key.

InfoQ: How to Handle Unfinished Stories?

InfoQ: How to Handle Unfinished Stories?
In Chris Sims' post, he summarized the experiences of David Starr of dealing with unfinished Stories.

One way to track progress is to give 80% of the point value of the story to the team for the current sprint. At first blush, this approach seems to accurately reflect the state of things, and may help keep the team's recorded velocity from varying up and down, sprint to sprint. It also has a certain amount 'feel good' value for the team. However, this approach has significant risk. The story is not verifiably done and the amount of time and effort that will be needed to get to 'done' isn't really known.

A second possibility is to split the story into smaller stories and take credit for the ones that can be considered done. To the extent that some of the smaller stories are truly 'done', this can reduce the risk associated with the 'partial credit' approach. It also allows the product owner to make some decisions about the relative importance of the unfinished stories.

In our projects, we seldom met the same issue. Most of the time, we can finish the stories on time, but sometimes we will also find that we were getting trouble on a certain user story. Most of the time, the issue is, the user story is developed, but it's not the same as expected of user. It's a common issue that user doesn't really aware of what they need. But in a formal development team, we must count our efforts so that we can really know our TRUE velocity in a certain cycle. In this case, usually we will adopt the second approach of David. We will split the user story into smaller user stories, and keep higher priority for unfinished user story in the next iteration.

But here comes my question, if the user story is finished, but we found it's not perfect enough for user, what should we do?

To satisfy user is one of the most important thing we should be aware of in an agile project. But most of the time, user only say "I need something but I don't know what it exactly looks like, I need your help". You can not exactly define what's the final quality requirement of user. So, you will get the feedback like "Yes, it works, but I think there are something we can improve, but I don't know where they are...".

How you deal with this in your experiences?

我的9型人格

做了一个测试，感觉自己各方面都很平均啊

九型人格分析

第三型	成就者、事業型、成就型、實踐型 14%
第八型	領袖型、能力型、挑戰者、保護者、權威型 13%
第七型	快樂主義型、豐富型、活躍型、創造可能者、享樂型 12%
第二型	助人者、全愛型、助人型、成就他人者、博愛型 12%
第五型	智慧型、觀察者、思想型、理性分析者、思考型 11%
第六型	忠誠型、忠誠型、尋找安全者、謹慎型 11%
第一型	完美主義者、完美型、改革者、改進型、秩序大使 10%
第九型	和平型、和平者、和諧型、維持和諧者 10%
第四型	藝術型、浪漫者、自我型、憑感覺者 8%

我的九型人格分析？

1. 第一型
2. 第二型
3. 第三型
4. 第四型
5. 第五型
6. 第六型
7. 第七型
8. 第八型
9. 第九型

你精力充沛，總是動力過人，因為你有很強的爭勝慾望。你喜歡接受挑戰，會把你自己的價值與成就連成一線。成就型的你會全心全意去追求一個目標，因為你相信「天下沒有不可能的事」。動力十足的你，適合做領袖帶領其他人。

主要特徵：

• 看重自己的表現和成就。
• 講究效率。
• 喜歡競爭，避免失敗。
• 相信愛情來自你能提供甚麼，而不在於你是誰。
• 只關注事物積極的方面，不理會消極負面的信息。
• 重視效率、比賽、贏。
• 難以瞭解個人的感覺。在工作的時候把感情放到了一邊。
• 為爭取認可而打造有利形象。公眾形象屬於社會高層人物。
• 在真正自我和工作角色之間會產生困惑。
• 通過集合思維的方式集中注意力，通過多渠道來尋找問題的答案。
• 能夠下意識地調整自我形象，以為調整地形象就是個人的真我。

代表人物：克林頓、貓王

資料來源：
http://www.potential.hk/jiuxingrenge.pdf
http://www.moways.com.sg/glcb_image/dsh/qxrg.pdf