Monday, April 16, 2012

Help us build something to be proud of


We want to build a DISRUPTIVE GLOBAL BIG DATA PRODUCT

cutting edge concepts, distributed computing, bigdata, DICCEE, internet of things, mobile platform, machine learning, scalable messaging, early adopters open source platforms



You will be part of a TEAM with colleagues as stunning as you are:
We are building a great technology innovation team – a team that is agile, self-driven and self-organized. We believe that responsible people thrive on freedom.
We have an EXPERIENCED CEO:
My name is Juraj Atlas and while I come with a technology background I have my fair share of international project / program management experience under my belt. I find passion in building technology teams, empowering them and helping them succeed. I am a natural born troubleshooter. More details about me are just a google away.
We are on a brink to have an initial INVESTMENT secured:
Part of the team is a group of investors who are committed to our long term vision. Our initial investment is planned to cover for the minimum of 12 months of deep technology immersion and building our first Beta with some tactical releases.

Are you curious while building state-of-the-art solutions? Do you love solving technical problems? Do you care and are advantageous enough to be part of an agile and innovative team? Do you hate cutting corners where it matters? Are you remarkable?

Bring your passion with.
We will pride ourselves if you find love in working with us. 

Juraj Atlas | +420 774 428 527 | recruit-at-jurajatlas.com | @jurajatlas
located in Prague, Czech republic

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Zmáhá vás informační zahlcení?

V dnešní době informací na dotek prstů kdekoliv a kdykoliv není těžké se dostat do situace, kdy začínají přetékat. Pokusy s jednodimenzionálním seznamem nepomáhají. Doplnění druhé dimenze ve formě štítků (tagů) na chvilku pomůže.
Ale ruku na srdce, kolikrát jste potřebovali konzultovat obsah o kterém jste věděli, že ho tam někde prostě máte. Ale je to již několik měsíců... A ne a ne jej najít. Nemluvě o tom, že v rámci naší práce (veku nebo doma), či osobních zájmů nebo rodiny jsou aplikovatelné různé okruhy informací. Dává smysl je pak házet všechny na jednu kupu?

 Já sám pro svůj knowledge management využívám několik nástrojů, které spojuje krátký proces:

  1. Když procházím svoje informační zdroje (Twitter feedy, RSS feedy čtečkou ), nebo v rámci informačního výzkumu na něco narazím a nemám čas to absorbovat, posílám do osobního backlogu na READ IT LATER
  2. Několikrát v týdnu ve vyhrazených časech po večerech procházím Backlog a bookmarkuju, anotuju a taguju absorbované obsahy nástrojem DIIGO
  3. Dle obsahu sdílím na několika místech: TWITTER, Facebook, Facebook Skupiny, Google+, nebo bloguju (rozhodně méně než bych sám chtěl) anebo nesdílím vůbec (to když mám zrovna sebeckou náladu :-) )
  4. Když vzniká nová idea produktu/funkce nebo alternativa pro možnou technologii či nástroj do projektu, vytvářím si taktéž novou kartu v jednom z boardů na osobím TRELLO
  5. Vzniká mi tak několik knowledge management knihoven, kterých obsahy již jsou na míru pro mne. Obsahují informace z oblastí, které mě zajímají nebo je potřebuji jako vstupy do svých projektů.
  6. Kdykoliv z backlogu "posunu" absorbovaný obsah někam dál (tj. přečetl jsem a zaznamenal do báze, která je pro daný typ obsahu určena), pak takový obsah z backlogu READ IT LATER vymažu - docílím tím, že se nedostanu do stavu, kdy mě netříděné iinformace začnou přetékat. Navíc mám k danému obsahu záznam ve vhodné knowledge management knihovně.
Každý z nástrojů (resp. obsahů, které v nich buduju), které využívám lze sdílet a postupně si tak tvořím i vlastní mini sociální sítě a komunikační kanály - osobní Facebook, profesní Twitter, soukromý ReadItLater, pracovní Trello, atd.

V poslední době ještě pokukuju po dodatečných nástrojích, které dále řeší komunikační potřeby, které výše uvedené nepokrývají:
  • FLOWDOCK = skupinová komunikace s historií, tagováním a kategorizováním (Trello něco podobného sice dokáže formou komentářů, ale není to úplně ono)
  • REVISU = skupinová kolaborace nad sdíleným obsahem (stop přílohám v emailech a donekonečna rozesílaným dokumentům s komentáři a připomínkami, kdy na konci vzniká spleť verzí a zabezpečení kompletní konsolidate se stává noční můrou)

Máte někdo podobný či jiný proces? Využíváte jiné (lepší) nástroje, které k individuálnímu a hlavně skupinovému knowledge managementu, sdílení a kolaboraci využíváte?

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Are you remarkable (employee)?


  1. Do you ignore your job description?
    You know when there is a problem and you jump right in trying to help fixing it without being asked, never mind that it was not you job nor your fault in the first place.

  2. Are you eccentric?
    You shake up things and push the envelope further, challenge the status quo and everybody with it.

  3. Do you know when to stay low?
    When the going gets tough, the tough gets going - rolling the sleeves, blending with the team and ultimately pouring oil on troubled waters.

  4. Do you make others feel special and appreciated?
    While being special your word of praise to your colleagues bears double the impact especially when being expressed publicly.

  5. When complaining or criticizing sensitive issues do you restrain doing it in group settings?
    You rather see your boss, colleague or subordinate in private in order to discuss a sensitive issues instead of setting up or boost flame wars within a group environment.

  6. Do you speak up when others don't?
    You can feel the concerns of your colleagues and you decide to stand up and present them on behalf of those who hesitate.

  7. Do you feel compelled to prove the doubters wrong?
    You praise any opportunity to prove that things can be done and find solutions to really hard problems while others keep saying "no-way".

  8. Do you always look for ways to make thing better?
    And you find them - not because it is your job or is expected from you, but rather because it is your nature to fiddle and push the satisfaction a notch higher.

Jeff Haden says: "Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers... they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities.
A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make a major impact on performance."
Find more details on "8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees" from Jeff Haden.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Do mobile connected things need users?

Cisco Systems has today released their  latest version of Visual Networking Index. Overall many interested predictions and view points to take and look at the near future of mobile connected industry.


Interested Tab.3: Users growth 2011-2016 (CAGR figures): tablets and portable gaming above 50% followed by M2M (machine-to-machine) devices with 42% growth. Does "smartphones growth at 24%" indicate nearing saturation?


Nevertheless smartphone and tablets are predicted to generate the biggest mobile data traffic growth.


Also between 2011 and 2012 it was non-smartphones (assuming featurephones), smartphones and M2M devices to see their data traffic growth more than doubled. 


We might be nearing a world where machines start talking to each other more and more while learning from users analyzing and controlling their behavior via their personal small screens (smartphones/tablets). Once these connected things get smarter and more context aware, they might need our control less and less. And we will in fact start enjoying how they keep automatically adapting to our needs.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

There is something about present positive ...

Shawn Achor says in his TEDx presentation The happy secret to better work: "If you can raise somebody's level of positivity in the present, than their brain experience what we call 'A Happiness Advantage', which is, their brain while positive performs significantly better than it does in negative, neutral or stress. Your intelligence raises, your creativity raises, your energy level raise. Dopamine that floods our system during happiness causes two functions: not only it makes us happier, it also turns on all the learning centers in our brain."

Let's train our brain to natural positivity.
Why don't you write down one positive experience that happened to you during the day. Every day.
Or send one positive and thankfull email to one of your co-workers. Every day.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Make it free and figure out the money once you provide value to users



Joel Spolsky and his team @ Fog Creek Software released Trello couple of months ago.
Joel now writes about couple of differences of this endeavour from any other products Fog Creek released before.

Two that resonate the most with my view are "make it free" and "get others to innovate upon the base".

Agreed: if the idea is solid, product drives tons of users, money will show themselves - though of course it doesn't hurt to have a long-term business vision from the get go (as turned out Steve Jobs must have envisioned iTunes model while designing iPod).

Joel writes:
"Trello is free. The friction caused by charging for a product is the biggest impediment to massive growth. In the long run, we think it’s much easier to figure out how to extract a small amount of money out of a large number of users than to extract a large amount of money out of a small number of users. Once you have 100 million users, it’s easy to figure out which of those users are getting the most value out of the product you built. The ones who are getting the most value will be happy to pay you. The others don’t cost much to support.

The API and plug-in architectures are the highest priority. Another way of putting that is:  never build anything in-house if you can expose a basic API and get those high-value users (the ones who are getting the most value out of the platform) to build it for you. On the Trello team, any feature that can be provided by a plug-in must be provided by a plug-in."

Source article: How Trello is different.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Práce myšlení

Manuální práce je náročná věc. Jak moc se chcete ztratit, když je potřeba vysát, naštípat dříví, vymalovat, přenést kanoe přes jez, uklidit hřiště, přeorganizovat nábytek, ... Každý jistě najde nespočet náročných nicméně nutných činností, které si nás v životě všude najdou.

A jak jste na tom s prací myšlení?

Neposouváte ideu k realizaci protože se bojíte neúspěchu?
Nenavrhnete zlepšení v práci, protože by to stejně nikdo nedělal nebo neocenil?

Lenost se mění, přátelé. Je jednodušší být statečným průkopníkem ideí a řešení než-li posilovat natolik, aby jste mohli zvednout 40 kilovou komodu.