Some architects don't pay attention to things other than software, such as seldom caring about the company or department's income. Although this kind of personality allows him to focus on software work, in the long run, if he does not think about how to create business value for the company through technology, it will be difficult to maintain or expand his influence in the team, and career development may also be frustrated .
You may have heard the phrase " see big opportunities in small data, and small opportunities in big data ", which actually applies to all of us technical people.
The first half of the sentence refers to the opportunity to abstract commonality from individual needs. That is to get inspiration from the process of solving a specific problem, and find an opportunity that can be applied on a large scale. For example, when doing user research, you find that a user always takes screenshots and then sends the product to another person via WeChat. Then you will realize that you can develop a sharing tool to get more social fission through applets and DeepLink.
The second half of the sentence refers to relying on data to polish the user experience. That is to find opportunity points through data analysis, and then through product and technology improvement, continuously improve conversion and reduce losses. This is a common approach to algorithms and digital operations. For example, the bounce rate of the homepage of Taobao App is 2%, which is continuously improved through data analysis and polishing.
Many very successful technical people, they often see small pain points that others ignore, or persist in exploring small anomalies that others do not check, and finally cross the realistic obstacles .
On the pain points and abnormal points that others tend to ignore, digging deep into the opportunities for large-scale replication is a good way to expand income.
Some people put too much emphasis on the geek spirit and pursue perfection in everything. The starting point is good. But in an enterprise, the pursuit of perfection must be based on the premise of cost control.
First, as an architect, you must pursue commercial value in architectural design .
When doing performance optimization, it is not simply to optimize performance indicators, but to aim at improving business value from the very beginning. Therefore, the optimization goal is the number of orders, not a technical indicator.
Second, if you want to create business value, you must constantly measure the incremental value you create , so as to ensure that you are at the forefront of value creation. And be able to keep looking for your own value-added space in a relatively unknown environment.
Third, as an architect, it is necessary to minimize the cost of the entire architecture activity. What you have to do is :
- Ensure the feasibility of the final plan;
- Find the optimal implementation path to ensure that the implementation can be completed in the end;
- Try to maximize the structure of your final solution, amplifying your output with minimal cost.
Fourth, building architecture is the same as doing business. You cannot win by saturation attacks , but by maximizing investment in staged and precise goals to achieve progress.
Fifth, constantly look for opportunities to expand income through technological means .
Sixth, constantly seek to reduce costs through technical means.
In the process of rapid growth of a business, the target user group and user mind, as well as the business model, supply chain and operation methods are constantly iterating. Then when we are running fast, the highest priority is to ensure growth. Even if the growth rate slows down, our priority is still to explore the acceleration mode and return to high growth. And when a business reaches maturity or even aging, it needs to save costs to expand profits.
This article is a study note for Day 7 in June. The content comes from "Guo Dongbai's Architecture Course" in Geek Time . This course is recommended.