Coming off of a full and tiring week I have a general recommendation and a specific one as well. From a broad perspective, I encourage you to have things you do in life just because they are fun. This can feel like a luxury that is tough to justify, but as Stephen Covey argues in… Continue reading Friday reactions – 27 July
This week’s Wednesday post is coming out a day late because things got away from me yesterday. We are in the midst of some great product discovery and discussion at work and that is taking a lot of my time. Still, I want to note a few things briefly. First, if you work in product… Continue reading Wednesday wisdom – 25 July
Each year I begin the month of January by carving out time to reflect on the past year and plan for the new one. The often hectic holiday season rarely provides me the opportunity to craft meaningful resolutions for the new year and I prefer to ponder these issues rather than rushing into commitments I… Continue reading Intentional start to the new year
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
Writing my latest blog post on daily planning as part of the broader Agile product development plan got me reflecting on some of my own planning tools and techniques. I wanted to share some of those thoughts here. First of all I should acknowledge that I am a huge fan of planning. I’ve found both… Continue reading Personal planning: reflections on my own daily planning post
Many months ago I started writing a 10-part series on Agile planning (you can read the first post here if you want to catch up; then keep going forward from there to find the other pieces, most of which are tagged as “Planning”). Since that ambitious beginning I got frequently sidetracked and so I never… Continue reading Daily planning
I spend a lot of time thinking about purpose. Sometimes of course I’m too busy to raise my eyes above the whirlwind of tasks buffeting me through my day; on days like those (and there have been a number of them in the past few months) the only purpose I can focus on is simply… Continue reading Living with purpose
How can I find more time? There are “too many” things I want or need to get done both personally and professionally – too much on my plate both by responsibility and by choice. People tell me it’s good to be busy but I disagree. How can i find more time?
I’ve been reading or listening to a number of interesting things this week and wanted to share some of that here. I’ve found several interesting blogs (including a couple that I reblogged earlier today) on topics related to my work. There are some wonderfully creative and insightful people out there involved in user-experience and user-interface… Continue reading Blogs and Ted Talks
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