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Agile Product people: is your inner Lisa Simpson making life harder for you?

Complexity, perfectionism, and the shame of not knowing all the answers

Oct 20, 2023

Oct 20, 2023

Published in
Bootcamp

Why “Why?” might be a more powerful question if you think like a German

There are six words for “why” in German. Does having only one in English make it harder to ask good, probing questions?

Oct 6, 2023

Grafitti on a white wall — “Warum?” is written in black, with the W spray-painted in blue, above an orange bean-shaped character with black, gangly limbs. Expression is hard to read because of damage to the wall, but eyebrows are raised off its head. Some kind of bricks or brick-effect cladding at the bottom of the image give the impression of a small drawing (maybe 20cm high?) at the bottom corner of a wall.

Oct 6, 2023

Published in
tech-gwi

Tips for presenting

…to exec-level folks and to humans generally

Nov 1, 2022

Woman using a microphone, striking an exuberant pose

Nov 1, 2022

You build it, you run it

What are the limits of “run it”? Fixing bugs, yes. Monitoring capacity and performance? Probably. Answering user queries? Depends…

Jun 28, 2022

Jun 28, 2022

Things I frequently recommend

I have a go-to list of books, blogs and videos I recommend as particular topics or challenges come up in conversation. I thought it would…

Mar 2, 2022

a masculine-looking hand giving a thumbs-up sign

Mar 2, 2022

Finding a Mentor: Be Your Own Matchmaker

Mentoring schemes are not the only option

Feb 11, 2022

Finding a Mentor: Be Your Own Matchmaker

Feb 11, 2022

What to do when your team is the blocker of everything

I wrote this up a while ago to share with someone experiencing similar challenges. It doesn’t represent a view of beautifully optimised…

Feb 10, 2022

What to do when your team is the blocker of everything

Feb 10, 2022

How I stopped being terrible at accepting compliments

I used to be so bad at this it still makes me cringe.

Mar 9, 2021

How I stopped being terrible at accepting compliments

Mar 9, 2021

Your Life Is Not An Indiana Jones Movie

Hero Narratives and Plan Continuation Bias and Turning Back Before It’s Too Late

Dec 24, 2020

Your Life Is Not An Indiana Jones Movie

Dec 24, 2020

Published in
The Startup

Building relationships across teams

I spoke at #SHINE19 yesterday about the importance of building relationships across teams. Here’s a slide I used, with a little commentary:

Nov 1, 2019

Building relationships across teams

Nov 1, 2019

Julia Harrison

Julia Harrison

She/her. Product leader. Background in Ops and ITSM, now agile, Lean and whatever else works. Talks a lot. Sometimes on stage. Views my own.

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