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Butterfield: Team messaging adoption is binary; 80 percent adoption means zero
“Yeah, and it's absolutely binary. So if we get to 80% of the team, And that's it. Then it goes to zero. It's a hundred percent or it's nothing.”
Butterfield: Centralizing tools in one hub outweighs better standalone UX
“Yeah, and I'd even be willing to admit that in many cases using a purpose-built specific tool for each of those items might be the better experience, but the value of having them all in one place just so completely overwhelms any benefit you can get by splitti…”
Butterfield: Slack adoption is binary and requires 100% team usage
“And what we found is that success with Slack is very binary. If we get to 80% of the of the team using Slack, it might sound like I'm about to say something good, but no, zero percent will be using it soon. It has to be a hundred percent.”
Butterfield: Hardcoding workflow ideology into database schemas limits software adoption
“The more specific you get, the more that ideology gets cooked into the model, or the scheme, I mean, in the literal sense, the database model, like the field names, and what columns you have the less likely it is going to work for any Given individual, because…”
Butterfield: All-in-one enterprise software suites are no longer viable
“So first of all, the suite would be far too broad for anyone to do, period, and certainly for anyone to do well.”
Butterfield: Search-centric tools drastically lower cognitive cost compared to manual filing
“Where it wasn't just the fact that you could search for the messages and find them again after, which obviously is very important, but the cognitive cost of processing incoming messages fell through the floor in comparison to a world where you had to manually …”
Butterfield: Game development is ideal practice for general software creation
“Games are harder to build. I mean, it's actually in some ways a serious answer that it's good practice for any other kind of software you might want to make for two reasons. One is because technically they're pretty challenging but probably more importantly, t…”
Butterfield: Lateral transparency across functional teams unlocks immense organizational value
“If the marketing team has perfect clarity about what's going on with sales, and can see where they're falling down, see where they need better materials, if the technical operations team can see what's going on with customer support, if the engineers can see w…”