Comments on: Incremental Delivery and Evolving Use Cases http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/ Software product success. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Scott Sehlhorst http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-58481 Scott Sehlhorst Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:14:39 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/#comment-58481 Anytime, Roger - good stuff! Anytime, Roger – good stuff!

]]> By: Roger L. Cauvin http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-58480 Roger L. Cauvin Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:42:14 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/#comment-58480 Oh, and thanks for reading and linking :-) Oh, and thanks for reading and linking :-)

]]> By: Roger L. Cauvin http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-58479 Roger L. Cauvin Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:41:16 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/#comment-58479 I have no idea whether the story about Jeff Bezos is true, but Amazon's foray into on-line "everything" violated fundamental branding and positioning principles. Details <a href="http://cauvin.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-does-amazon-mean.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://cauvin.blogspot.com/2006/08/amazons-lack-of-focus-revisited.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I have no idea whether the story about Jeff Bezos is true, but Amazon’s foray into on-line “everything” violated fundamental branding and positioning principles. Details here and here.

]]> By: Scott Sehlhorst http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-58456 Scott Sehlhorst Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:33:21 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/12/12/incremental-delivery-and-use-cases/#comment-58456 A little Google-searching about the start of Amazon found: "He first settled on the concept of catalog shopping without a catalog. He then narrowed his sights further to focus on books and music. He finally chose to just sell books at first, thinking he could get more leverage with the big book publishers than with the big record labels, even though many are parts of the same conglomerates." at http://www.miscmedia.com/amazon.html So, maybe it's true, maybe the premise is true, and maybe its false - guess we'll never know, unless one of the Amazon employees that reads Tyner Blain (I know there are at least a couple of you) knows the answer... A little Google-searching about the start of Amazon found:

“He first settled on the concept of catalog shopping without a catalog. He then narrowed his sights further to focus on books and music. He finally chose to just sell books at first, thinking he could get more leverage with the big book publishers than with the big record labels, even though many are parts of the same conglomerates.” at http://www.miscmedia.com/amazon.html

So, maybe it’s true, maybe the premise is true, and maybe its false – guess we’ll never know, unless one of the Amazon employees that reads Tyner Blain (I know there are at least a couple of you) knows the answer…

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