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Julia Harrison

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

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

3 min readOct 20, 2023

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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?

3 min readOct 6, 2023

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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.

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tech-gwi

Tips for presenting

…to exec-level folks and to humans generally

7 min readNov 1, 2022

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Julia Harrison

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…

2 min readJun 28, 2022

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Julia Harrison

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…

4 min readMar 2, 2022

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Julia Harrison

Finding a Mentor: Be Your Own Matchmaker

Mentoring schemes are not the only option

4 min readFeb 11, 2022

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Finding a Mentor: Be Your Own Matchmaker

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Julia Harrison

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…

5 min readFeb 10, 2022

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What to do when your team is the blocker of everything

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Julia Harrison

How I stopped being terrible at accepting compliments

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

5 min readMar 9, 2021

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How I stopped being terrible at accepting compliments

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Julia Harrison

Your Life Is Not An Indiana Jones Movie

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

3 min readDec 24, 2020

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Your Life Is Not An Indiana Jones Movie

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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:

3 min readNov 1, 2019

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Building relationships across teams

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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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