Crowdfunding lessons learnt from Jolla Tablet & TOHKBDAmanda Lam
Jolla Tablet and TOHKBD (The Other Half Keyboard) are interesting products that leveraged the Indiegogo and Kickstarter crowdfunding platforms. While both teams managed to raise 3x to 6x of the original goal, both product teams encountered significant technical challenges that affect eventual delivery. What they could have done to better improve the communications with contributors? How should the public realise their roles in the crowdfunding campaign and readjust their expectations?
These slides were presented in BarCamp Hong Kong 2015 as one of the opening presentations.
Collaborative product development in F/OSS projectsAmanda Lam
Successful F/OSS projects rely on effective collaborative product development processes. In this presentation we will briefly discuss about the key success factors of software projects - namely product management, programme and project management, User Experience (e.g. usability research, interaction and visual design), stakeholder management and launch management etc., and how they can relate to F/OSS projects as well.
In this presentation, we will also talk about the cultural differences and challenges across virtual teams, factors affecting knowledge sharing, gender-bias in F/OSS communities and other human behavioural challenges that make F/OSS projects particular more difficult to manage than other non-F/OSS projects.
This presentation was presented in the Hong Kong Open Source Conference held on Oct 19, 2013.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5UlYmYcaI
Exploring the right business strategy for open source mobile platformsAmanda Lam
As presented at the Hong Kong Open Source Conference.
"As presented in the HK Open Source Conference 2015.
The mobile industry has longer been dominated by two major ecosystems. While Windows and BlackBerry are fighting for the 3rd place in global market share, newcomers such as Firefox OS, Sailfish OS, TIZEN and Ubuntu on Phones are struggling to attract market attention and traction.
By performing strategic analysis on these platforms, certain critical success factors and how open source could help are identified and discussed."
Tacit knowledge sharing in virtual teams:is it even possible?Amanda Lam
Tacit knowledge is the kind of knowledge that cannot easily be documented, and can only be learnt through observations, imitations and practices etc. While knowledge can be documented (i.e. explicit knowledge) and shared across different teams relatively easily, most of the business knowledge generated in modern organisations are in fact tacit knowledge that cannot be preserved and shared easily. Sharing tacit knowledge could be particularly hard in virtual teams who work in different parts of the world, as most time the time the sharing must be done via different IT tools. This presentation explores and discusses the general factors that affect tacit knowledge sharing in virtual project teams.
Crowdfunding lessons learnt from Jolla Tablet & TOHKBDAmanda Lam
Jolla Tablet and TOHKBD (The Other Half Keyboard) are interesting products that leveraged the Indiegogo and Kickstarter crowdfunding platforms. While both teams managed to raise 3x to 6x of the original goal, both product teams encountered significant technical challenges that affect eventual delivery. What they could have done to better improve the communications with contributors? How should the public realise their roles in the crowdfunding campaign and readjust their expectations?
These slides were presented in BarCamp Hong Kong 2015 as one of the opening presentations.
Collaborative product development in F/OSS projectsAmanda Lam
Successful F/OSS projects rely on effective collaborative product development processes. In this presentation we will briefly discuss about the key success factors of software projects - namely product management, programme and project management, User Experience (e.g. usability research, interaction and visual design), stakeholder management and launch management etc., and how they can relate to F/OSS projects as well.
In this presentation, we will also talk about the cultural differences and challenges across virtual teams, factors affecting knowledge sharing, gender-bias in F/OSS communities and other human behavioural challenges that make F/OSS projects particular more difficult to manage than other non-F/OSS projects.
This presentation was presented in the Hong Kong Open Source Conference held on Oct 19, 2013.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5UlYmYcaI
Exploring the right business strategy for open source mobile platformsAmanda Lam
As presented at the Hong Kong Open Source Conference.
"As presented in the HK Open Source Conference 2015.
The mobile industry has longer been dominated by two major ecosystems. While Windows and BlackBerry are fighting for the 3rd place in global market share, newcomers such as Firefox OS, Sailfish OS, TIZEN and Ubuntu on Phones are struggling to attract market attention and traction.
By performing strategic analysis on these platforms, certain critical success factors and how open source could help are identified and discussed."
Tacit knowledge sharing in virtual teams:is it even possible?Amanda Lam
Tacit knowledge is the kind of knowledge that cannot easily be documented, and can only be learnt through observations, imitations and practices etc. While knowledge can be documented (i.e. explicit knowledge) and shared across different teams relatively easily, most of the business knowledge generated in modern organisations are in fact tacit knowledge that cannot be preserved and shared easily. Sharing tacit knowledge could be particularly hard in virtual teams who work in different parts of the world, as most time the time the sharing must be done via different IT tools. This presentation explores and discusses the general factors that affect tacit knowledge sharing in virtual project teams.