The Value of Delivering Nothing.
In the fast-paced world of product innovation and agile development, delivering value through new products, features and solutions is paramount. Sometimes, however, Product teams can deliver value by saying, "No"
The mythical “Full Stack” Product Manager…
The ‘Full Stack’ term has recently started to appear in buzzword-heavy Job descriptions for Product Managers. Recruiter Marketeers love a good buzzword and ‘full stack’ is just such a thing: it means nothing, so it can be used everywhere and for whatever definition you wish. But is ‘full stack’ useful, or even advisa
The real ‘benefits’ of employment
A job description should always indicate the salary or range. However, a cursory glance at Job Boards suggests this only happens less than 50% of the time. Probably less than 30% on a lot of job boards. On the other hand, job descriptions are choc-full of all sorts of other ‘benefits’. If a job description […]
Podcast interview on “The Business of A.I.”
I was very pleased (and a little surprised, if I’m honest!) to be asked to feature on “The Business of A.I.” Podcast. The interview with Luca Marchesotti of Sparkd AI was a little bit nervy because it was unscripted and the questions were not supplied in advance. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation [&he
Now that you’re ‘working from home’… behaviour and etiquette for Virtual Meetings…
This is an updated version (given the huge explosion in the numbers of people working from home in 2020 as a result of COVID19 / Coronavirus and the likelihood that this will accelerate the Work From Home transition) of a Blog Post published originally in 2015. Warning: this is a looonnnnggg post so please excercise […]
How (not) to be a Recruiter…
Not everyone is cut out to be a Recruiter. Some of us Contractors get to deal with dozens (even hundreds) of different Recruiters. Occasionally one comes along that makes it all worthwhile. David isn’t that one... :-)
Agile Outside the Development Team
Updated with link to download the Issue (free). I’m very pleased and proud to have an article commissioned for (90,000-readership) Better Software magazine. My article – ‘Agile Outside the Development Team‘ – is chosen as one of the four ‘featured’ articles and the magazine also includes
How to be a BA – become a Scientist.
How to be a BA – become a Scientist. The number of Blog posts, articles and discussions that ask or attempt to explain “How to be a BA” is a good indication that nobody really knows the ‘silver bullet’ answer. If you think you’ll find the perfect answer here…. don’t waste any more time reading […]
Tip for BAs: make a portable whiteboard
I’m often asked to recommend simple tools for aspiring BAs to use and I can’t think of anything more simple – or more useful – than pen & paper or, where available, a whiteboard. For those of you who like to work with pen & paper or with whiteboard & marker, here’s a simple tip: [&hellip
In response to all the ‘advice’ from Recruiters…
I was asked recently for my advice on how to approach a face-to-face meeting with Recruiters… I guess I was asked since I never seem to be overly stressed about changing jobs (in fact, I quite like the new environment, new people and new challenges). As a result, this makes it seem like I know […]
