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.
Product management from a non-traditional background
This post originally appeared as an article on LinkedIn. I knew I wanted to become a product manager about three years before I became one. I had come a long way, and had a few careers since my art school days, but thought that my boss’s job — product management — seemed more interesting than …
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A weekly routine for better product management
I can be incredibly right-brained. I really like routines and processes to ensure that I get things done efficiently and consistently. To that end, I have a bunch of routines. My favourite one, is the one I do on Friday afternoon. This is a weekly routine for better product management and more peace in the …
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Blogging in Jira for better product management
Using the blogging feature in Jira can save you a ton of time and improve your communication as a product manager.
Simple stakeholder communication
Keeping stakeholders in the loop on sprint progress is a very important part of a product owner's job. That said, keeping stakeholders up-to-date should take the least amount of time possible so that you have time to do the actual work of product management. I like to take a proactive approach to stakeholder updating, so …
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