Weeknotes 326
Did
Tech strategy
Worked on a strategy for making choices about which technologies to use in different situations and to help us deal with the grey area between buying commercial-off-the-shelf and building on our own tech stack.
Down with dogmatism
This week’s Irregular Ideas was about creating a social safety net for open-mindedness that helps us change our minds.
ThingsIveReadRecently
I read 20 things about roadmaps, altruism, systems, agility, product management, climate, bees, anti-racism, autism, design and non-profits.
October retro & November delivery plan
Wrote my retro for October and delivery plan for November.
Read:
Better Value Sooner Safer Happier
The Design System lifecycle: it’s simply push and pull
This explanation of how design systems can be used to pull information into the product development process and push information back is really interesting.
Product management principles
I have mixed feelings about principles, but these product management principles from dxw are pretty cool.
Thought about:
Consistent or creative
I’ve been thinking about two modes of working; one that uses a standardised, repeatable process to reach a known output, and one that uses more creative approaches for vague and uncertain outputs. It seems obvious when either should be applied
NoBloPoMo
It’s almost November so I’m going to try to write a short blog post every day of the month like last year.