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. Categories Posts
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. Categories Posts
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! Categories 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. Categories Posts
2022-11-25 Book signing and talk at OLF At the OLF Conference, I’ll deliver “Your bug tracker and you.” I’ll also be doing a signing of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Categories 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? Categories 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. Categories 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. Categories 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. Categories 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. Categories Posts
