Nailing the Quarterly Plan
Gantt masti time.
Siddharth Sharma
Bhel-puri code
From the dawn of the age of computing, humans have been telling computers to do things. That has never been the problem. A stack of punch cards can instruct a computer just fine.
The problem is, and always has been the human comprehension of these programs. Because until recently all
The Dashboard Nerd Guide
Dashboards are like teeth. Strong, white teeth indicate overall health and viability of an animal. And beautiful, useful dashboards indicate the health and viability of an organisation's information systems, which these days is the health of the whole org.
Herding Cats
One of the defining characteristics of a well functioning product org is discipline. And discipline necessarily entails getting people to do things one way and not another, which as we all know, can be famously difficult when dealing with programmers.
Some have likened the organisation of the efforts of programmers
The Annual / Quarterly Plan
Months of hard work can save you days of planning.
Information Wants to be Free
There is something magical that happens when project management dashboards start to show the way to the goal. The teams become self-directing and in complex and chaotic situations, self directing teams are a super-power.
But you can't get there without a correct information architecture.
Architecting Beyond Code
It isn't just code that needs architecting. Every piece of text produced by your org executes on human wetware. It is code. And it needs to be treated like code.