Author: Funkstop
Date: March 19, 2017
In my alternate dream world, I live immersed in a world of arts and culture — traveling from gallery to gallery or show to show, allowing myself to get lost in the creativity. Over the past few years, I’ve been delving back into exploring my first love: Art – music, painting, photography. The creativity that … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: February 17, 2016
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins My rating: 3 of 5 stars An ok book – it rambles a lot at times, but there are some very clear tools which are useful. I was expecting a book that was very distinct … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: February 1, 2016
If you find these instructions valuable, please provide some feedback and/or comments so that I can feel good about myself 🙂 This past couple months have been a time of experimenting and cleaning up household ‘tech debt’. I’ve had a couple of old laptops that had had met untimely deaths and still needed to have … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: July 30, 2015
Lean Startup Company has been putting out one of my favorite podcasts on product management recently. Thank you Heather McGough for interviewing me for the recent one. It was a lot of fun! Note: If preferred, jump to the 4min mark to get past the Intro part. Thank you for listening
Author: Funkstop
Date: July 22, 2015
Often when I am working with teams, I am reminded of fables or stories that I was told as a child. The true nature of those stories weren’t always obvious then, but it is amazing how the insights become clearer with age. A story I was most recently reminded of, goes something along the lines of: A … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: June 1, 2015
Image courtesy of Bob Jagendorf, on Flickr One of the most misunderstood roles in the valley is that of a Product Manager. Depending upon which company you go to, and which methodologies or processes that company is using, there is a different definition of a product manager. With everyone flocking to Agile/Scrum, there is yet … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: May 19, 2015
Well we’ve been back from our 8-month long sabbatical for a bit more than a month now and a considerable amount of time after returning has been spent reminiscing. A number of people have asked about lessons we learned, what we would do again, or what we would do differently. After reflecting for some time, I … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: December 23, 2014
Awesome – so now you’ve got your prioritizations, you know your time-slices, and you have your flags and notifications under control right? If you haven’t read the previous articles, you may want to get yourself up to speed first: Part 1: Multitasking is a necessity Part 2: Starting points for the 1st function: Prioritization Part … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: November 18, 2014
Welcome to the next function: Notifications, Interrupts, Flags, and Semaphores. If you haven’t already, you may want to read the previous posts: Part 1: Multitasking is a necessity Part 2: Starting points for the 1st function: Prioritization Part 3: Time-Slicing It’s been another week and there’s another article talking about the detriments of multitasking, and … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: October 20, 2014
Learning the 2nd function: Time-Slicing Welcome back! The next function in mastering how to Multitask: TimeSlicing. If you haven’t already, you may want to read the previous posts: Part 1: Multitasking is a necessity Part 2: Starting points for the 1st function: Prioritization In the first post, we got the basics of multitasking down (vs multi-processing … Read More