Agile Complexification Inverter

  Most portfolio apps start with a “you own all of this” dashboard: pie charts, news feeds, watchlists, and AI‑generated recommendations fighting for your attention. The user ends up overwhelmed, not empowered. PortfolioEC takes the opposite path: It begins with a  single, clean equity‑curve chart  that shows your portfolio’s value over time, across 1D, 1W, 1M, 3M, 1Y, 5Y, and 10Y views. Your  buy/sell trades  appear as markers on that same curve, so you can visually see which decisions drove growth and which dragged you down. By deleting the “feed‑driven” UI and defaulting to the curve, PortfolioEC forces focus on  what actually matters: performance over time and the trades that shaped it . Delete the complexity traps Many portfolio tools invite you to: manually tag “winner” or “loser” trades, maintain spreadsheets of “what‑if” scenarios, cross‑reference tax‑lot data in a separate system. PortfolioEC instead deletes those manual steps and replaces them wit...

 If you felt the earth shake on 12/31/2024... it may be because you have a footing in the Agile world.  I've removed most of my connections to that space... but I saw the tremors and went to look for the cause. Here's about the best breakdown I've read: Agile Alliance / PMI Partnership ? Join me at The Swift Dojo - learning about the Apple App ecosystem.

 My friend and colleagues have released their new book:   Software Profit Streams(TM): A Guide to Designing a Sustainably Profitable Business And it has me thinking about what it means to be a sustainable business.  My best definition of a sustainable business would be to look at the lifetime longevity of the business .  My guess is that a family business would be the most sustainable model.  One could include a monarchy in that class of business model (looking at the  House of Windsor ).

Have you heard about the PO's new assistant?   It is quite the item of gossip - isn't it? Could you imagine if we were to outsource our development jobs to someone?  Someone in another country, a foreigner,  or an artificial life-form, an AI - oh the shame of it all! What would it require to craft an AI with the ability to write a Product Backlog?  Would we require special software, expensive specialist knowledge, and millions of dollars? Would we be able to trust that the user stories the AI wrote and placed in our backlog were the correct requirements for our unique product? It is the 21st Century - we have to be ready! That is a quote from Captian Jack Harkness , and he is in a Time to know. Let's run a test.  Let's try the AI out and see if it could write the basic product backlog for a travel app.  Phone apps have been around now for 15 years or more.  The best ones are targeted at just such a task.   We could then see if the AI generated us...