I wrote a blog post earlier this month (which you can find here) about focusing on people, process, and products. Here I want to add some brief comments about the fact that different types of leaders are motivated by these three different focus areas. Some leaders are passionate about products. I see many of these… Continue reading Types of leaders
I wanted to share a link here to a good blog post on leading your peers from an author and speaker whose work I admire: John Maxwell. Check out his thoughts on being the kind of leader with integrity and compassion who can lead her peers because they trust her. Leading Your Peers by John… Continue reading Leading your peers
I spent 4 hours on a bus back and forth to New York last week which gave me plenty of time to read. Here are brief thoughts on two books I finished on that trip – numbers 25 and 26 for the year for those of you counting in the home audience. First, a relatively… Continue reading Two more books
Originally posted on Applied Product Management Leadership:
Sometimes you just need good reminders … now is one of those times, for me at least. Stress is inevitable if you serve in a product management role for any length of time. And while you can’t necessarily control the external circumstances that cause stress, you can manage…
I read a lot of blog posts and articles about product development and recently came across a really insight one from the folks at Intercom. Here’s a link: https://blog.intercom.io/first-rule-prioritization-no-snacking/. The premise of the blog post is that development teams can easily be distracted by low effort/low impact work (the “snacking” in the title); they can also… Continue reading Where to focus development effort
My 24th book of the year is another good graphic novel from Image Comics; this one is entitled Alex + Ada and I read volume 1 (available for free by the way if you sign up for a 30-day trial of Comixology Unlimited). If you’re a long-time reader of this blog you know I’m a… Continue reading Alex + Ada
Originally posted on InTruthItsNotThatSimple:
In a well-functioning Agile development team, the members of the team collaborate in multiple ways during a given development cycle or Sprint. Coders, testers, designers, and product owners work closely with each other to ensure that the most important features and fixes are worked on in the right way at the…
A brief note on my 23rd book for the year, a collection of essays from John Brooks entitled Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street. Brooks, who wrote for The New Yorker among other publications, delves into some of the big business stories of the 1960s in these well written reflections… Continue reading Business Adventures
When was the last time you read a comic book – or any book for that matter – that left you feeling better about your life and the world? When have you read something that wasn’t just beautifully illustrated and grippingly told but that also brightened your outlook? My 22nd read of 2016 did just… Continue reading Low volume 1: The Delirium of Hope
My 21st read for 2016 was another graphic novel, this time from Marvel’s Max line. The book focuses on a character well known in both the comic book and cinematic universes: Nick Fury. However this story presents a slightly different view in a slightly different ‘universe;’ here there is no SHIELD (Fury works with the… Continue reading Fury: My War Gone By
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