EFFICIENCY, WHICH IS DOING THINGS RIGHT, IS IRRELEVANT UNTIL YOU WORK ON THE RIGHT THINGS

PETER DRUCKER

Cases

Simplicity should be the main design principle.

These are real life examples of how time, money and effort were saved through simple decisions and choices.

Fake it till you make it!

Fake it till you make it!

How IBM saved millions by NOT building a PROTOtype
Cutting out the nonsense

Cutting out the nonsense

On how to save time by building a Proof of concept
Let's do it by hand

Let's do it by hand

How to simply save a man-month
Avoiding the flight forward

Avoiding the flight forward

Replacing MySQL with ElasticSearch created unexpected new problems
Avoiding the time zone hell

Avoiding the time zone hell

How a geographically distributed team experienced misunderstandings and cost overruns
Let's create luxury problems!

Let's create luxury problems!

"Suppose we get a million users!" Or why choosing Amazon Web Services can be a foolish choice
Who needs an API?

Who needs an API?

How to save a year of work by choosing a simple solution
Who needs Excel?

Who needs Excel?

How 'thinking outside the box' can save money
Forget the MailChimp API

Forget the MailChimp API

Another case of doing manual labour over automation

If you like to share your own insightful case, please email me at frank@frankkarsten.com.