This week
- I find most writing on software productivity to be twaddle, but Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda are notable exceptions. I had a chance to take a look at their new book, published today, and liked it so much I wrote a foreword. more…...
Last week
- I’ve touched billing systems inside several companies now, and the same pattern shows up every time: the hard part of migrating off seats isn’t the software, it’s the operational debt baked into the business. This is why billing system migrations take at least 8-10 months. You...
- One of the hardest things I’ve found about being a Head of Product / Chief Product Officer is that you really have two jobs: The first is setting up a strong product culture, establishing strong design/roadmapping practices, mapping out product processes, managing...
- In 2019, I decided to write a book about software engineering. As an experienced software engineer and manager, I had the topic clear in my head, and assumed the whole project would take between six and 12 months in writing and publishing it. The first proof copy of The...
Two weeks ago
- Content is infinite and free now. Trust isn't. We're abandoning digital channels entirely because we can't tell what's real anymore. The post The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful appeared first on Arnon Shimoni....
- I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology. This service...
About a month ago
- When I was a developer, half of our frustrations were about technical debt (the other were about estimates that are seen as deadlines). We always made a distinction between code debt and architecture debt: code debt being the temporary hacks you put in place to reach a deadline...
- Everyone (mostly me) keeps saying seat pricing is dead, and some people are arguing with me online. I think that’s cool, but it’s because they don’t understand why it’s dying. For twenty years, SaaS revenue scaled with headcount.More humans = more seats.That logic held so long...
about 1 month ago
- Ellis and Blake are having a catch-up over a coffee. Ellis is looking a little stressed. “We hired a new product manage,” Ellis explains. “So we can be more user-centric.” “Great!” Blake responds. “How often will they speak to the users?” There’s a long silence, which gives...
- As companies grow, there is a stark shift from having a team of generalists to a team of specialists. A young startup might ask an engineer to play roles ranging from engineer to PM to interim manager to solution consultant and more. A young startup might ask a PM to be a PM and...
about 2 months ago
- The traditional advice for tech companies is that you should ignore your competitors. Just talk to customers and put your energy towards making yourself as great as you can be. Hit the gym, practice gratitude, focus on yourself king. At least in SaaS, I believe that this is...
- the conflict between groups tasked with managing risk and those tasked with making progress is legendary but both sides need to play a role in moving forward...
- Architects always get a bad rap when it comes to design documents. We get blamed for delivering these massive solution design documents that take weeks to produce, eat into the time for development and in the end result into an encyclopedia that nobody reads. The architectural...
- Better interest recommendations, reading history, reaction links, flags, and more....
- I have a love-hate relationship with “the MVP car”, that classic illustration that shows us the RIGHT and WRONG way to build a product. To be fair, I don’t think its creator Henrik Kniberg would want it called “the MVP car” at all. According to his post the whole point of the...
2 months ago
- Leading a new effort at work meant to transform the company? May you last long enough to become the villain....
3 months ago
- Introducing Claude Code Anonymous - a new meetup format for full-breadth developers....
- In my startup days, we often had these dead marches where we had to implement a massive new feature in time before some kind of trade show happened. We worked long hours and even weekends to make it happen so the boss and a project manager could go to Vegas for the trade show....
- Tech gets the headlines, org change gets the results What if most of the benefit from successful technology adoption doesn’t come from the technology at all? What if it comes from the organisational and process changes that ride along with it? The technology acted as a catalyst...
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