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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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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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2022-09-01

Who are you excluding with your default language?

Picking a single language gives you that common basis for communicating. But who do you exclude when you pick that language?

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2022-08-04

Why program management matters in open source

In my latest article for Opensource.com, I explain how program managers help combat the exponential increase in communication channels.

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2022-01-12

Picking the right animal metaphor

“Herding cats”, “aligning ducks”, “Nemoing tuna”. There are so many animal metaphors for program management. Which one works best?

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2020-09-25

Herding cats: program management in communities (DevConf.US)

This is an updated and extended version of my DevConf.CZ 2019 talk presented at DevConf.US 2020. Date: 25 September 2020 Location: virtual Abstract: Large open source projects are complex. Whether you have someone formally filling the role or not, your project is performing program management tasks. This talk covers some of the key work that program managers perform in community...

Talks

2019-01-27

Herding cats: project management in communities (DevConf.CZ)

I was not prepared to have a packed room for this DevConf.CZ talk. I also thought the content seemed obvious. But the audience loved it. It’s a good reminder that what seems obvious when you do the job everyday is not obvious when you don’t. Had I been more clairvoyant, I’d have titled it “Aligning ducks”. Date: 27 January 2019...

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Tag: community

Perception matters — make people feel heard

Developer and user communication channels

Who are you excluding with your default language?

Why program management matters in open source

Picking the right animal metaphor

Herding cats: program management in communities (DevConf.US)

Herding cats: project management in communities (DevConf.CZ)