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2023-02-08

Write standard operating procedures

When you document how to execute a process, that ensures you’ll do it right the next time. This helps your future self and your successors.

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2023-01-25

Perception matters — make people feel heard

Making someone feel heard doesn’t mean doing whatever they want; it means they feel like you’ve made a good faith effort to understand them.

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2023-01-12

Why does this meeting exist?

If you can’t come up with a sentence or two that says why you scheduled the meeting, you should consider what that implies.

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2023-01-04

How open source projects collaborate

The idea of helping your competitors might be hard to accept, but when we work together, we all do better.

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2022-12-07

Manage your project deadlines

Deadlines are easy to set and hard to meet. So how do you set deadlines that aren’t hard to meet? It’s not hard!

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2022-11-30

Should you require a criterion when nominating a release-blocking bug?

The people discovering — and thus nominating — blocker candidates may not be intimately familiar with your project’s processes.

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2022-11-23

Developer and user communication channels

As your project grows, the community has to decide whether or not to maintain unified channels or separate them. How do you decide?

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2022-11-09

Using Taiga to manage writing a book

Taiga’s advanced kanban features made it a great tool to keep track of my work in the year and a half I wrote my book.

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2022-10-26

The difference between “when it’s ready” and “YOLO” schedules

Releasing software when it’s ready and a “YOLO” approach aren’t quite the same. While the latter is whimsical, the former has a plan.

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2022-10-19

There is no good time for a meeting, only the time you pick

Scheduling a meeting is the most difficult task placed before a program manager. Here’s how you can find a time when all the times are bad.

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Write standard operating procedures

Perception matters — make people feel heard

Why does this meeting exist?

How open source projects collaborate

Manage your project deadlines

Should you require a criterion when nominating a release-blocking bug?

Developer and user communication channels

Using Taiga to manage writing a book

The difference between “when it’s ready” and “YOLO” schedules

There is no good time for a meeting, only the time you pick

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