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Manage GitHub Issues milestones in Trello

December 19, 2012 at 12:54 pm · Filed under Product, Product Managment, Programming

In doing product management on an engineering-led project, GitHub Issues rock. The killer features are that it’s a) really simple, b) tightly integrated with code (you can reference/close issues via commit messages), and c) facilitates discussion of issues just like it does of code.

What GitHub Issues suck at is being able to get a high-level view, where you can see more than 30 issues at a time, and broken out by milestone or by person. (You can only filter to see issues for one milestone or one person, but not easily move multiple issues between them.)

I’d really like to see a Trello-style interface for managing GitHub Issues. Some very limited integrations exist, but what I’m looking for would let you quickly move issues around between milestones. This would help plan a product roadmap and be able to visualize what the upcoming milestones look like in one place.

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Objective Process for Product Reviews

August 5, 2012 at 8:35 pm · Filed under Design, Product, Startups

I watched Jeff Veen’s “Designing for Disaster” talk (below) and took away a couple of parts that I thought were really good. Some notes:

How to do Product Reviews (can be design, product, process, anything) — making an objective process out of something that is very subjective.

  • Optional attendance, but mandatory participation (keeps everyone focused)
  • Not a forum for expressing opinions
  • Rather, a place to solve problems.
  • Define in the beginning if session is supposed to be divergent or convergent.
    • Divergent -  I want as many ideas to solve this problem as possible – let’s talk about everything; brainstorming
    • Convergent - Evaluating feasibility, acknowledge constrains. Drive towards consensus.
Driven by Purpose
  • Measure momentum in days (weekly checkup of progress)
  • Measure projects in weeks (figure out pace, when we will go out with the next thing)
  • Measure priorities in months (“we’re going to focus on performance and distribution in Q2″)
  • Measure vision in years (“organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible”)

 

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