Figuring out how to deal with all of your tasks can be really overwhelming! The way that you manage tasks in your workflow can be a huge help to your overall productivity. Having a good system in place is so helpful. Here are some tricks that I use, in case they are helpful to you! …
Talking to Kat Zivanovich of Shopify
Kat Zivanovich is a Senior Product Manager at Shopify. I met Kat while I was working at Clearly. She was working at Huge, and we worked on a project together. She is actually one of the people who got me interested in product management! Do you consider your product a Saas product? I work on …
Mentorship and your career
On Tuesday evening, I had the distinct pleasure of being a panelist for the inaugural mentorWIT event, "Transform Your Career Through Mentorship." The other three panelists and I shared our thoughts and insight on mentorship for women in tech. Below are some of the questions we were asked (as well as a few we didn't …
Calendar blocking for better product management
Calendar blocking productivity hack for product managers.
mentorWIT virtual panel
I'll be speaking on a panel about mentorship on November 3! Mentorship has truly helped me get the job I want and learn a ton of new things. I have a lot to say about mentorship, whether it's formal or informal mentorship. I'm pretty thrilled to be in the company of these three other Albertan …
Talking to Leah Elzinga of ATB
Jerin Stewart introduced me to Leah Elzinga when I interviewed him earlier this year. She is a Product Owner at ATB Financial and Community Organizer. What a great introduction that turned out to be, as Leah is just a font of product management tips and information that I hadn’t heard before! Leah got into tech …
Talking to Steve Kirkham of Berbix
Steve and I met in Grade 1! I actually can’t remember anything about when we first met because we were six, but we’ve more-or-less been friends ever since. Steve is the CEO and co-founder of Berbix and has been a Product Lead at Airbnb and a Product Manager at Google. He’s a wealth of PM …
Talking to Jerin Stewart of ATB
Jerin Stewart is a senior product manager at ATB Financial, here in Edmonton. Jerin and I met at the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) "How to make products customers love" workshop in November 2019. As part of my quest to learn more about the craft of product management and how other Saas companies do things, …
Overcoming burnout
I originally wrote this post in 2016 and it has sat in my drafts folder until now. This is a story about overcoming burnout, something I experienced at the end of 2014/beginning of 2015. Given the state many of us are in balancing work — or lack thereof, family and personal obligations during a global …
Resources for getting started in product management
Resources to understand or get into product management.
Kate Moore Hermes 