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DO Not Help Google Find Sarah Conner.1 minute read.
My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile on your face. Google captcha is evil.
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On Writing Product Roadmaps12 minutes read.
Starting Q4 of 2017, this post by Gaurav Oberoi is everything you need to build effective Product Roadmaps. We do quarterly planning and it allows us to debate around the "must have" and "nice to have" before we run to execute on it. Above all, I think it helps to set expectations around the team's velocity: It's easy to feel that every feature is essential and any delay there means the team is ineffective. This is far from being true.
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How to Overcome The Guesswork of Product Development With Hourly Engineering Estimates8 minutes read.
Hiten Shah shares how he prefers to break down projects to cut down delays and complexity early on in the process. This is a heated debate for sure, so be ready for it and share it with other teammates to get their opinion. People who work with me know that I prefer hourly estimations (and then assume you're working 5-6 net hours a day making sure) as a way to improve your time estimations. I hate buffers or fake deadlines; it smells from lack of trust. Ask yourself after each task or feature is done: "Could I have foreseen it before starting to write a single line of code?" -- if the answer is no, you're probably on the right track to build stronger instincts around estimations.
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Tracking Compensation And Promotion Inequity4 minutes read.
This post by Lara Hogan is a must read for leaders in the organization who have access and control over compensation: "Plenty of tech companies are attempting to make their pipeline of candidates more diverse. But an organization won’t find much success recruiting a more diverse group of employees unless its leaders are aware of their existing internal inclusion and equity issues."
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