Tag: Management
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Managing Distributed Teams
At Automattic, I lead a fully distributed product development and engineering team. This post will cover some of my personal practices for managing teams and if/how this is different in a distributed environment. These practices are probably more useful to newer managers running distributed teams for the first time. I recently listened to Matt (Automattic’s […]
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A few Management Frameworks
As a manager or manager of managers of product development teams, it can be hard to focus on the right things and to make sure that you’re making progress on your ever growing list. To help others overcome the same challenges, I am sharing a few of my personal frameworks that have helped me focus […]
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Insight from independent sources
In my opinion, one of the hardest parts of product and general management is drawing insight from the right sources to determine ‘product health’ to identify where to focus, especially when managing multiple product lines. In my experience I try pull data from three independant, uncorrelated sources to inform where I should focus my effort – […]