UX/Design Techniques • Jun 30, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 2 – Story Mapping Starting a new initiative? Use Story Mapping to do some design thinking, and create a detailed understanding of the user’s experience.
Resources for Clients • May 31, 2024 Client Tips: Get Value From Your Product Team In software development, the equation for achieving exceptional value from your product team extends beyond financial transactions.
Personal Optimization • May 12, 2024 Embrace Being Vulnerable: The Strength in Admitting What We Don’t Know Let go of the need to know everything. Find the power and freedom of embracing being vulnerable and acting transparently.
Product Development • Apr 13, 2024 The Double-Edged Sword of Collaboration: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Decision Paralysis I'm all for collaboration, but let’s talk about the limits of collaboration and how to avoid decision paralysis.
Culture • Apr 07, 2024 7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Work at Atomic Recently, I wrote about Why I Love Working at Atomic, but here are a few reasons you might not want to work at Atomic.
Growing as Makers • Mar 23, 2024 Ask These 10 Questions in a Job Interview When Your Top Priority is to Advance Your Career Quickly In this second of a three-part series on how to find the right job, I focus on how to evaluate a company if career growth is most important.
Project & Team Management • Feb 05, 2024 How to Keep Your Jira Project From Becoming a Dumpster Fire Jira's breadth of customizations and features can also be a downside. Let's take a look at a few common pitfalls in a typical Jira project.
Project & Team Management • Feb 03, 2024 What Does It Mean to Be a Software Product Owner? New to being a software Product Owner? Here's what you should know about your customers, stakeholders, and industry.
Growing as Makers • Jan 21, 2024 Why You Shouldn’t Go Into Management (Yet) Building technical skills can supercharge your management capabilities. Learn why you should consider staying in the trenches longer.
Development Practices • Dec 28, 2023 Technical Spikes: A Recipe So you’ve been assigned a technical spike — where do you start? The following is my general process for tackling technical spikes.
Development Practices • Dec 06, 2023 Solve the Theory of Constraints in Software Development The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a management philosophy focused on resolving constraints to improve overall system performance.
Project & Team Management • Oct 04, 2023 Bulleted List: Use This Lo-fi Tool for Backlog Planning Avoiding backlog management software in the early stages of a project has proved valuable. Here's the low-fi tool I use for backlog planning.
