I recently finished reading my third ‘book’ this year: Spiral is a 5-issue arc in Amazing Spider-Man 16.1 – 20.1 written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Carlo Barberi with inks by Juan Vlasco and colors by Israel Silva (plus letters by Joe Caramagna). I could also talk about ‘reading’ a fourth book since I… Continue reading Spiral
Let me begin by saying that if you care about product development and product management then I encourage you to follow Steve Johnson on Twitter (@sjohnson717) and check out his blog (http://under10consulting.com/). His insights are consistently useful, his experience helpful broad, and his writing style clear. If you follow me on twitter or read my… Continue reading ASPIRE – from Steve Johnson
I recently read an essay entitled Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership from the Harvard Business Review. The author encouraged all leaders to ask themselves four questions about areas of their leadership – key projects or groups they are leading – that I found particularly compelling. Since reading the article I’ve spent… Continue reading Four key questions leaders ask themselves
I spent the day yesterday (February 3) at an all-day virtual conference on how product managers (or ‘product people’), designers (or ‘UXers’), and developers (or ‘engineers’) can work well together (the PMUX conference). The conference involved six presentations from some luminaries in the field whose books, blogs, articles, and even tweets can be insightful and… Continue reading Product Management and User Experience virtual conference
Wanted to post a brief note on things I’m reading lately since I am in the middle of several larger books so won’t be adding much new to my ‘finished’ pile for a few weeks. I’m almost halfway through a great collection of 12 essays on the history of Wall Street and the financial world… Continue reading Brief note on what I’m reading
Conducting a retrospective at the end of a sprint is a core Agile practice. It constitutes one of the key ‘meetings’ for Scrum (along with sprint planning, sprint review, and the daily scrum meeting itself) and when done well it provides a valuable lever for the continuous improvement of the development team. The main scrum… Continue reading Looking back on retrospectives
The second book I finished in 2016 is the first novel by Argentine author Edgardo Holzman entitled Malena. Malena is the name of a central character as well as the name of a well-known Tango. This was a haunting book examining the repressive regime in Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s through its… Continue reading Malena by Edgardo David Holzman
I’ve written before about the importance of good testing in Agile development but a few things happened during our current sprint that raised this valuable issue for me again. Here are a few brief thoughts about this key topic. To set the context for these thoughts let me tell you a little about our development… Continue reading I love when our tests fail
Yesterday my wife and I watched the 2014 movie Selma about the event leading up to the Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. The timing for watching the movie was somewhat coincidental; it’s been in our Netflix queue for months and the disc just happened to show up in time for us… Continue reading Selma
In an effort to keep better track of the many things I read I’m going to post brief notes anyway about each book I finish this year. And that includes the graphic novels and comic trades I read (though I won’t write about individual issues unless they are too incredible to skip). To that end,… Continue reading First book I’ve finished this year
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