I love old computers and old computer games, and I love to read everything I find about both of them. Last summer I decided to write this quite lengthy article, my personal history of computer gaming. For sure I’m not the first one, and I won’t be the last one…

Originally published on my personal blog, emabolo.com In 1994 MicroProse released a turn-based strategy game called Sid Meier’s Colonization, a spin-off of one of the most popular strategy games ever created: Sid Meier’s Civilization. Despite the title, the game was mostly designed by the lead developer, Brian Reynolds, a talented…

History is written by the winners, the personal computer is no exception — In 1980 Steve Jobs gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal claiming: When we invented the personal computer, we created a new kind of bicycle”. In the box placed in the middle of the title you can read: “Steve Jobs invented the first personal computer in 1976 with his…

We started using this methodology four months ago. How did it go? Last September, my team and I decided to test a new methodology called Dual Track Agile for the development of our product (a simple mobile game). The main principles of the methodology are listed in this post. …

I wrote this article almost four years ago, and since then, I received many messages and comments. Several product managers found this simple list very useful for their work. Other readers thanked me for having introduced them to new concepts such as OKR or story maps. Others told me they…

Random funny things learned in 9 days spent in this wonderful city — Intro: I live in Italy and I travel quite a lot, both for business and personal reasons but mostly in Europe. I have been in San Francisco 3 times, but only in my last trip I really had the chance to live the city, meet people and have fun. It…

A excerpt from the “Definitive App Economics Blog” by Tomi Ahonen This is a recap of a very interesting (and very long) post I found in the Definitive App Economics Blog. We all know the app business is difficult, but the numbers are really dramatic. The main fact: 96% of…