Topic
teamwork
- Look Back Less
Jason Fried: A better path is to reflect forward, not backwards. Develop a loose theory while working on what's next. Appreciate there's no certainty to be found, and put all your energy into doing better on an upcomi…
- Process vs. Practice
In product development, you can orient a team toward process or practice. Process is about repeatability, scalability, efficiency, execution. Practice is about creativity, inventiveness, searching for solutions. Choos…
- Against Recurring Meetings
I have a bone to pick with recurring meetings. They've become a scourge that's been amplified with fully distributed teams. What may start with clear intent as a space for a team to coordinate continuous work eventual…
- Don't Confuse Motion With Progress
When I read Cal Newport's Deep Work a few years ago, one of my favorite ideas in the book that I keep coming back to in conversations is the idea of "busyness as a proxy for productivity". Here's how he puts it: In th…
- On Effectiveness vs. Efficiency
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." — Peter Drucker People throw around these two words pretty indiscriminately in business, usually not making a distinction between them. They…
- Team Objectives
Marty Cagan's SVPG has a good series on team objectives covering a broad range of topics related to product team goal-setting and execution. As we work on implementing an OKR model internally, I've been thinking about…