Spending minutes, not meetings

Why I really love Adobe Xd is I’m able to send product designs to the team and iterate on the design over a matter of minutes rather than meetings. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools https://agilemanifesto.org/ If you saw my last post you’ll know we’re designing a progress tracker for part-time post-graduate students. Here’s the […]

Advanced Product Management: Turning vision into Strategy

Just putting in to practice my learning from the APM module I’m taking. This is turning a product vision into a strategy. The problem, our students have full-time jobs and fit in their Masters level study around their lives and employment. This means doing short bursts of work, then feeding the kids, then returning the […]

Vision: “A vivid mental image, especially a fanciful one of the future”

Advanced Product Management recap for day 1. Well I was correct on how much talk there was going to be in this course! But to focus on the +ve’s. The course is demystifying what a vision is, and how I’m already partaking in vision work. It is demystifying what vision strategy is and how I’m […]

Advanced Product Management (Day 1)

Today is day 1 of the Advanced Product Management module on udemy. I’m hoping it’s a tonne better than their first module, “intro to PM” which was talking and taaaaalking. However, since this new intro started out as, “first we’ll talk about vision, then we’ll talk about…” we’ll see! Here’s the learning outcomes I’m aiming […]

Labour leadership contest

Welcome to my view on the Labour Leadership Race… Collating the word on my whatsapp it seems to be a choice between a suit, lady without the same presence as JC, or a sharp minded someone or other. Who should I vote for? This labour leadership election has left me nothing short of mixed. Keir […]

Labour as a multi faceted diamond and not a two-faced coin

I really hope this weekend Labour and Momentum were sitting at a table talking amicably about how to get in to power as a team. We need them to come together to find common ground and represent all Labour voters , activists, MPs and bring with them various positives, history and teams they have. Clearly […]

Giving power to an engine of positive social change

That’s what we stand for. Positive change for a fairer society. All our efforts in the Labour party should be to focussed on bring power to enact that message. Should Labour be looking to bring back “working class” voters? Well, does it bring power to the engine of positive social policy? So obviously yes it […]

Why Femi didn’t talk to persuade, but to push his views

Divides won’t heal unless people are willing to converse properly and fairly. I think Femi doesn’t talk to persuade in this video, but to push his views and for a public “rotten tomato throwing”. Are you talking to persuade, or to push your views? This conversation is unreal on two fronts to me, the lady […]

Is EdTech Still Relevant?

This post is a submission to the OpenBlog challenge #OpenBlog19. As people who work in the business of supporting educational technology you’d be surprised (and probably a bit disappointed) if we said no EdTech is not still relevant, it’s not. But it’s a question that’s fairly regularly asked. It normally starts along the lines of […]

Diablo 3 and the devil in the gameplay

When I was younger, Diablo 1 took some level of skill to complete, and consideration of ones armour or weapons. The game was atmospheric, challenging and a load of fun. I’ve got Diablo 3 for Switch now and it just feels like there’s such a missing element in the gameplay, like under the hood the […]