management
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How Do Users Define Success?
→: How Do Users Define Success?This is part 4 of a series of blog posts based on a talk I prepared called Successfully Derailed Product. It’s about the ways in which we define and talk about “success” influence what – and how – we build. See part 1, part 2, part 3. Let’s take another step back and talk about how…
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How Do Teams Define Success?
→: How Do Teams Define Success?This is part 3 of a series of blog posts based on a talk I prepared called Successfully Derailed Product. It’s about the ways in which we define and talk about “success” influence what – and how – we build. See part 1, part 2. Taking a step back from individual success, I wanted to understand…
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How do Developers Define Success?
→: How do Developers Define Success?This is part 2 of a series of blog posts based on a talk I prepared called Successfully Derailed Product. It’s about the ways in which we define and talk about “success” influence what – and how – we build. See part 1. With the caveat that how we define success comes from various places,…
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Whose Expectations are Those, Anyway?
→: Whose Expectations are Those, Anyway?This is part 1 of a series of blog posts based on a talk I prepared called Successfully Derailed Product. It’s about the ways in which we define and talk about “success” influence what – and how – we build. There used to be a joke at a company I worked for that went…
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Managing Up and Down
→: Managing Up and Down“Managing up” can seem like a dirty word, I definitely thought so for a while, and deludedly aspired to be the kind of manager who did not need to be “managed up” (thankfully I have friends like Camille to call me on my bullshit). Now I can accept that 100% my team have to manage up with…
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Try This One Weird Tip To Increase Leadership in Your Organization
→: Try This One Weird Tip To Increase Leadership in Your OrganizationAs leaders, most of us have been in a place where we’re maxed out. It can be tempting to just do it ourselves and hope things improve. Another thing that often happens is that it gets shoved on someone else, and they’re left to deal with it. As a rule, I try not to hand…
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Questions for an End of Year 1:1
→: Questions for an End of Year 1:1My coach (Dani) went through this list of questions in our call last week, and I’ve been using it in my last 1:1s of 2017. I’ve been finding it interesting as a structure for a conversation that looks back at the year and where we are now, versus where we were a year ago. Sometimes…
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Home is Where the Work Is: Increment Mag
→: Home is Where the Work Is: Increment MagI was in Increment talking about remote work and what my schedule looks like working on a distributed, global team.
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Process Design
→: Process Design(or: be careful what you incentivise) When we design processes, we are heavily biased to design processes that we would be successful in. We see this with hiring processes, and we see this with promotion processes. You might think having multiple people would help with this but this seems just as likely to create the…