Stakeholder management can make or break a career. Depending on the organisation and role you work in, this could take up a large proportion of your time. Stakeholders can on occasion, be rather demanding, and make what might seem like unreasonable requests. …

We’ve all been there, dazzling over the perfectly curated backlog, having asked why 5 times, RICE’d every item to within an inch of its life, battled through a maze of JIRA settings to present product perfection. Then, just as you let out the contented breath, wham! HiPPO (highest-paid-person’s-opinion) attacks. …

If you want to stop something, make it difficult, if you want to start, make it easy. — These things will all help you achieve your goals, but they won’t achieve them for you — sorry, I don’t have a magic motivation, ability, and prioritisation wand, you’ll still have to do the heavy lifting there. But, they will give you a framework that will make it easier (not…

Good managers know that getting great work out of people is a function of the collective effort between the manager, the employees, and their environment. The manager plays the critical role here. The quality of their management determines whether employees can unlock their talent. It is, however, one of the…

The Agile movement is in danger. Its community has grown large, and with that size comes bureaucracy, politics and more. I’ve been trying to understand why Agile doesn’t ‘work’ in organisations. Both from my hands-on experience, and then researching the theory and pioneers in this space. Broad strokes, it seems…

Fountains of UX Joy I just wanted to share a beautiful piece of UX Design I discovered at 2am, in a sleepy haze, 24 hours after becoming a father for the first time. My little lad had decided that his nappy changing during the early hours of the morning would…