Duck Alignment Academy

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!

Posts

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.

Posts

2022-11-25

Your bug tracker and you (OLF Conference)

At the OLF Conference, I’ll delivered “Your bug tracker and you” and held a book signing for “Program Management for Open Source Projects.”

Talks

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?

Posts

2022-11-22

Save 40% on the Program Management for Open Source Projects ebook!

You can save 40% on ebooks of Program Management for Open Source Projects when you use promo code turkeysale2022 at checkout.

News

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.

Posts

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.

Posts

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.

Posts

2022-10-12

Why Are There So Many Competing Open Source Projects?

Why do you have so many choices? Explore the reasons, drawbacks, and benefits of competing open source projects.

Posts

2022-10-07

Oh no! The community is growing! (InvenioRDM meeting)

The InvenioRDM community invited me to speak at their 2022 Partner Meeting. Abstract: A growing open source community is a blessing and a curse. When your user base grows, you need to grow your contributor community to keep up. How do you grow your contributors in a sustainable way? Part of it requires building up processes to make the work...

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