Weeknotes: Reflecting on the week that was – This is the one where I kept things moving
Weeknotes: I got the job!
I only worked 3 days this week so it was a short week. Short and good! Last month, I interviewed for a senior product manager role at GDS and on Tuesday, I found out I got the job! I was so excited, I don’t think I properly calmed down till …
Weeknotes: Making Progress
Weeknotes: Reflecting on the week that was – This is the one where we made good progress
Weeknotes: All about accessibility
This week was a very busy one for me – Scoping the work we need to do in order to meet the accessibility requirement for public sector bodies has shown that there is still quite a lot to do before the deadline so I mostly focused on GOV.UK accessibility this …
Weeknotes: A clearer path
Weeknotes: Reflecting on the week that was – This is the one where the path to achieve needed results became clearer
Weeknotes: Is the week over yet?
What a week it’s been! I think I was ready for this week to be over by Thursday. This week, I realised that a significant impact of working remotely is thinking about how to map things on a matrix, which did not require any thinking before because we just used …
Weeknotes: Managing two products
Well, It’s been almost a year since I last wrote a weeknote so here we go again. As you can imagine, a lot has happened in that time and the world has changed so much. I’ve just recently started working on 2 very different product spaces, spending about 50% of …
Creating alignment during product discovery
“A product discovery typically describes a (flexible) period during which you and your team focus on building the right thing as opposed to building the thing right (which would be Product Delivery)” – Tim Herbig Product discovery focuses on learning fast and it is one of the key roles of …
2019 Review: On adulting and smelling the flowers
It feels a lot like 2019 happened to me, like I didn’t have a lot of say in it. It took me a while to figure out why it felt so busy and so ordinary, even though so many amazing things happened. I finally figured it out as I rushed …
A calm one
After the whirlwind that was last week, this week was much calmer. We had a one week sprint and everyone just tried to achieve the goals. Here are the highlights. Journey mapping Last week, we had several sessions with users to understand how intuitive the tool was. However, interactions with …