Author: Matt Jukes

  • Week 50/52

    Week 50/52

    A couple of notable things happened this week; I’ve been working hard promoting the Product Manager vacancy in the team this week. There is so much competition for these roles – at least six or seven other public service orgs have live recruitment campaigns for roles with almost identical job descriptions and very similar salaries.…

  • Week 49/52

    Week 49/52

    Today is a much needed non-working day here at Jukesie Towers. It has been quite the four day week so it feels much appreciated. For the most part I’ve been lucky these last six months with very few totally manic back to back meeting days – this week however was a bit of a perfect…

  • The Forties

    The Forties

    In these dog days of my 40s I am just having a bit of a look back. They were quite a roller-coaster one way or t’other. Some really high highs and low lows. Not least my weight! I’ve been as heavy as 19+ stone/121kg and down to 14.5 stone/92kg. These days I am somewhere in…

  • Week 48/52

    Week 48/52

    This week has felt like a bit of a struggle. While I’m definitely feeling a lot better than I was at the start of last week my recovery stalled a week ago and I’m left with the remnants of a frustrating cough and cold which is sapping my always minimal energy. I had to skip…

  • A Roadmap Readme

    A Roadmap Readme

    In the dying days of 2022 I started to crowdsource a collection of roadmap examples to help land on a format and approach we could consistently embrace at the day job. I was looking for something that needed to walk a very fine line – an approach that aligned with our agile/product thinking and ways…