April 25, 2018
How to Question Your Boss (and Be Loved for Being Obnoxious)
Rude is not always loud. Yes, the person who speaks over everybody in a meeting is a bit obnoxious. But the person fading into the corner of the room can be even worse. No…
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April 24, 2018
How to Measure the Success of an Enterprise Transformation
All lasting companies change. The most successful ones transform in meaningful ways that continuously increase value for customers and employees. Recently, I have been sharing in…
April 23, 2018
How to Explain Your Product Management Job (to People Who Do Not Know What Product Management Is)
Career day at the elementary school. Thirty pairs of little eyes stare up at you. Jacob’s mother just finished telling them all about her life as a firefighter. She even wore her…
April 20, 2018
My Name Is Claire George — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
Language has always fascinated me. It is a tool for communication that allows people to convey their ideas, needs, and wants. I studied modern languages (French and Japanese) at…
April 19, 2018
Your Go-to-Market Activities Need to Change — Here Is How
The day has come. Your teenager is finally ready to part with their toy car collection. In the old days you might have held a yard sale and tacked flyers up around the…
April 18, 2018
Just Launched! — Enhanced Rally Integration Syncs Estimates on Epics and User Stories
T-shirt sizes. Planning poker. Bucket system. These are just a few of the techniques that agile teams use to estimate work. However, no matter which method used, there is one…
April 18, 2018
This Is How to Build a Collaborative Text Editor Using Rails
It is a painful realization. You just added a beautiful, multi-page description into your bug tracker’s text editor, complete with photos and a short screencast. Then your…
April 17, 2018
Busy Is Not a Badge of Honor
A whole lot of “busy.” The person in the grocery store tapping out messages between two cell phones at once. The jogger whose eyes keep darting to the notifications blipping on…
April 16, 2018
How Product Marketers Want to Work With Product Managers
It was a big product launch. This was several years ago when I was on the marketing team at a multinational organization. We had been working hard to build out content and programs…
April 13, 2018
The Founder’s Paradox: How Do You Build a Company Without Venture Capital When People Want to Give You Lots of Money?
“Can we grab a cup of coffee?” For some reason, this has become the casual beverage of choice for venture capitalists and just about anyone else who wants to get together and talk…