Digital by Default

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…

I really am enjoying the honeymoon period of this new job. Day by day I can feel the rust getting shaken off – not just from the sabbatical but also shaking off some of those consultant perspectives and letting my public servant instincts reassert themselves. It is an interesting time to join this organisation –…

So I am back. 210 days later I fired up my new Windows laptop, opened Teams, waited for the fan to calm down and dived back in. My start was delayed a week by a particularly nasty bout of Covid which I suspect has made this re-entry a bit tougher physically but mentally I’ve really…