Well the circumstances that caused my short and downbeat note last week have now leaked all over The Guardian. I don’t have much to add other than that this kind of disruption is rarely evenly distributed across an organisation and I’d suggest that this article underplays things for the corner in which I am operating.…

This is a short/short week for me that for reasons became even shorter and has left me with a super short weeknote. Honestly it has been a weird couple of days work wise. Change is coming in waves and the significant pivot that has emerged in the last week or so has left me discombobulated.…

Blooming heck. Well this week has been PEAK CIVIL SERVICE.  I don’t really know what I can say about it? Needless to say there were MANY Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint org charts and Teams meetings discussing said documents.  There were unreasonable deadlines, moving goalposts and misunderstandings. Anything I had planned in weeks one to three is…

Amongst all the weeknotes, rants, jobs lists and nonsense I have written a few useful blogposts about working in agile and product management so I have collected my favourites here so I can point at them in the future. Grumpy agile – https://productforthepeople.xyz/grumpy-old-person-agile-d2465d875ac1?source=collection_home—4——0———————– An agnostic agile approach for the grumpy folks. Working open – https://productforthepeople.xyz/working-open-works-1-8de0bd983c1a?source=collection_home—4——1———————–…

After giving myself a couple of weeks just to immerse myself in the new job I worked a bit harder this week to reinstate a few habits and plans to protect my wellbeing a bit this time around. This feels doubly important as the aftermath of my recent bout of Covid has been especially unpleasant…