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Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and Bad Product Decisions (Part 4 – End) Part 4 – Dealing with FOMO Through Planning In my last newsletter, I talked about doing a quick dive into data to validate a FOMO-based decision. There’s another way to ensure that you don’t fall into a...

Reflecting on the Law of Two Feet I was attending yesterday’s talk on the Agile Virtual Summit. Diana Larsen  was the first speaker, and right of the bat, she informed everyone that she was pivoting her talk. She addressed head-on the current events of the riots in the US resulting...

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) And Bad Product Decisions Part 3 – Dealing with FOMO Through Data My last newsletter  highlighted that FOMO-based decisions are typically driven by emotion. Most often, these decisions add on to the pile of work that people are currently handling, which then causes stress and...

An Example of Online Collaboration Done Very Well Just because you’re remote doesn’t mean you can’t Collaborate During the early part of the Shelter in Place, I participated in a highly collaborative design sprint exercise. The whole session was online. Since the Agile ideal is face to face, who says...

The Work Remotely Genie Has Now Escaped the Bottle Remote work is here to stay…permanently Recently the technology company Square announced that they were permanently allowing people to work remotely. This announcement comes on the heels of Twitter’s similar declaration a week ago. Also, companies like Facebook and Google announced...

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and Bad Product Decisions (Part 2) Part 2 – Drivers and Motivations In my previous newsletter, I defined FOMO as the Fear of Missing Out when it applies to specific product decisions. I gave a couple of examples that I’ve heard from various product managers...