Poll: Why Aren't You Part of the RoadTest Group?

RoadTest is about consistent expectation delivery using an equation that has three random variables. Variable one the idea. Variable two the skill set. Variable three the outcome. You have an idea and a skill set that you believe will deliver an outcome. RoadTest hopes to deliver consistent results to vendors using that equation.

I think of RoadTest as the marketing and managing of free stuff that needs to generate a return. The idea is supported in the quote attributed to Roger W. Hancock.  “Nothing is ever free, though to you it be. Somewhere, somehow, someone paid.”  Let me see if I get this right. Vendor offers free stuff for evaluation. RoadTest connects free stuff with evaluators. Evaluator provides evaluation on free stuff, for free.

RoadTest are unique in that they are designed to tap the passion people have for technology. That same passion has created and still drives whole companies with what appears to be little effort. I especially love the author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi when it comes to describing this. He refers to it as flow.

I believe this quote from his book Flow:The Psychology of Optimal Experience describes why there is such a downside in a proposal not being accepted. “Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.”

When our proposals don’t succeed we look to the approval process to find the answer. Reader, I ask you to go back to the equation I provided at the top. Now consider the responsibility Randy assumes. He has tried to help us write our proposal by providing information in How To Write a Winning RoadTest Application. There are many of us writing proposals and a few succeeding. I trust by being in The Flow of technology, our failures are satiated.

RoadTest is about consistent expectation delivery using an equation that has three random variables. Variable one the idea. Variable two the skill set. Variable three the outcome. You have an idea and a skill set that you believe will deliver an outcome. RoadTest hopes to deliver consistent results to vendors using that equation.

I think of RoadTest as the marketing and managing of free stuff that needs to generate a return. The idea is supported in the quote attributed to Roger W. Hancock.  “Nothing is ever free, though to you it be. Somewhere, somehow, someone paid.”  Let me see if I get this right. Vendor offers free stuff for evaluation. RoadTest connects free stuff with evaluators. Evaluator provides evaluation on free stuff, for free.

RoadTest are unique in that they are designed to tap the passion people have for technology. That same passion has created and still drives whole companies with what appears to be little effort. I especially love the author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi when it comes to describing this. He refers to it as flow.

I believe this quote from his book Flow:The Psychology of Optimal Experience describes why there is such a downside in a proposal not being accepted. “Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.”

When our proposals don’t succeed we look to the approval process to find the answer. Reader, I ask you to go back to the equation I provided at the top. Now consider the responsibility Randy assumes. He has tried to help us write our proposal by providing information in How To Write a Winning RoadTest Application. There are many of us writing proposals and a few succeeding. I trust by being in The Flow of technology, our failures are satiated.