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Sorting Alerts
Ah, the new year! February begins the new fiscal for many organizations, and it’s a fine time for resolutions and spring cleaning. You know, fun stuff like dumping recurring meetings, washing the windows, tech debt hackathons, or rearranging the living room. Here’s a fun spring cleaning activity to consider: review, sort, and maybe stop the…
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The Monthly Progress Meeting
Prioritizing hurts. It’s not just ordering a list, it’s picking the ideas that will live. But there’s a strange difference between doing it, and communicating it. Prioritize by yourself on a Saturday afternoon with a clear head. Communicate on Monday morning to questions and challenges from everyone involved. Then every month, you get to do…
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Where do Product Managers Come From?
Product management is a relatively recent discipline, young enough that the definition is still a bit shaky and we see occasional reactionary questions. (“What would you say you do here?” was directed at a PM after all.) When my PM career started the only formal training was Practical or SVPG; now I meet intern candidates…
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Getting Stuff Done while Growing
One of the benefits of a long career across a variety of enterprise companies is that I have seen a variety of solutions to getting stuff done. This post will mainly be about operational cadence work and incident response. The related problems of developing new software solutions are a different and honestly more familiar problem.…
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Building Products Isn’t Linear
You know that graphic about building a car that goes through steps from skateboard to car as the Right Way to Do It? I’ve always been bugged by something in that. To wit: each of the five steps is its own fully realized engineering project. They’re arguably smaller than the build a whole car project,…
