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 …
Change is constant
This is my first weeknote. Hello! I’m Tobi, Product Manager on GOV.UK. The last week (ending 16/08/2019) has been an interesting one. I started managing a new product so I thought why not start writing weeknotes now? no better time than a new beginning eh? I started working on the publishing …
2016 Review: Love and happy endings
2016 was a good year. I had my court wedding on the 30th of December, 2015. Therefore, I started the year on a high. I had pretty clear plans for the first half of the year: Plan traditional and church wedding, change name, apply for a new passport and UK residence permit, handover …
Good times
It’s amazing how time flies when you are having fun eh? The past 6 weeks have been amazing. Shortly after I posted about the need to make my own luck, I got a job, the type of Job I wanted. It happened pretty fast too, I had one interview and got …
Stuff nobody tells you
I have wanted to write about Sex for a while, from a different perspective. This is not a post about having sex or not, It is about the lack of sex related discussion before marriage. In (African) Christian communities, Sex is hardly talked about with ‘before marriage’ folks, except that …
The thing about open doors
I first read about the human tendency to keep doors(options) open and how distracting this is in a book I read last year — Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational. We like to have options, it’s natural to us. Sometimes, we go out of our way to find said options. Humans do this …