April 23, 2018
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…
April 20, 2018
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…
April 19, 2018
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
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…
April 18, 2018
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…
April 17, 2018
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…
April 16, 2018
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…
April 13, 2018
“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…
April 12, 2018
Enterprise transformation has been a popular topic on this blog lately. By now, you should be familiar with the framework I have laid out. And you may be wondering how it…
April 11, 2018
Engineering just shipped the latest release. The UI team finalized three designs. Marketing has a new blog post ready for product review. And it all happened this…