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Nov 3, 2021

Is Scrum Stifling Your High-Functioning Team?

Scrum has become synonymous with Agile in the minds of many. But it might surprise you to learn that most big tech companies don’t use Scrum, favouring lighter-weight methodologies. Those that are using Scrum are probably not doing it by the book. While there are many variations in the way…

Agile

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Is Scrum Stifling Your High-Functioning Team?
Is Scrum Stifling Your High-Functioning Team?
Agile

15 min read


Mar 20, 2021

Why Roadmaps Fail

And how to make them succeed If you work in a product team, chances are you have had something like the following experience. Your leadership regularly hands down the itemized list of features they want you to build over the next year or quarter. These features range from customer wants…

Roadmaps

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Why Feature Roadmaps Fail
Why Feature Roadmaps Fail
Roadmaps

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Published in PPC Samurai

·Apr 4, 2020

Low Effort Management of Google Ad Charity Campaigns

Using PPC Samurai to automate time consuming tasks for Google Ads — One of the more rewarding things we do at PPC Samurai is offer a pro-bono service to manage the campaigns of some amazing charity organizations. Google offer a very generous scheme that allows these non-profit organizations to access $10,000 USD per month of advertising spend. …

Digital Marketing

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Low Effort Management of Google Ad Campaigns
Low Effort Management of Google Ad Campaigns
Digital Marketing

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Published in Skedulo Engineering

·Jul 31, 2019

Avoiding The Sunk Cost Fallacy in Product Development

As imperfect people, we all suffer from cognitive biases. A particularly insidious one is the sunk cost fallacy — the tendency to double-down on our mistakes just because we spent a lot of time and effort making them. In product development, this shows itself in the difficulty of realizing when…

Product Management

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Avoiding The Sunk Cost Fallacy in Product Development
Avoiding The Sunk Cost Fallacy in Product Development
Product Management

6 min read


Published in Skedulo Engineering

·Oct 29, 2018

Scala Programming — A Skeptic’s Journey

Like many developers, I cut my teeth on C/C++ and Java. I’ve written a lot of working software, and the vast majority of it was imperative or object-oriented. Sure I liked lambdas, and I had seen the difference that making stuff immutable had done for my multi-threaded code. But for…

Programming

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Scala Programming — A Skeptic’s Journey
Scala Programming — A Skeptic’s Journey
Programming

8 min read

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