Exploration consists of five practices like thinking, sleeping, and defining a criteria for selectiveness. The purpose of these is to discern the vital few from the trivial many.
Escape to Explore
The potential of taking time off
PPC. The letters for Progress, Plans and Challenges. This format calls for a succinct and meaningful way of sharing with others at work what we’re working on, what we are planning next, and what challenges we are facing. We had been using this approach among a group of product people for a few weeks when... Continue Reading →
Book Review: “Radical Candor” by Kim Scott
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott My rating: 5 of 5 stars Before reading this book I felt I had some pieces of a big and difficult puzzle. While I read it I managed to validate this, but I also realized how incomplete my picture would have... Continue Reading →
Book review: “The User Experience Team of One” by Leah Buley
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide by Leah Buley My rating: 4 of 5 stars I started reading this book when we were a small team of product managers and product designers in the job. Often finding myself stuck in how to go on about a problem, and seeing... Continue Reading →
“What did I learn today?”: On writing and self-reflection
Over four years ago I wrote a post in this blog with the title "What did I learn today?" (blog post written in Spanish). I started asking myself that question back then as a way of reflecting about my days at work. It was a period when I was embarking on a new career, so... Continue Reading →
Web Summit 2017
At the beginning of November I had an i.n.t.e.n.s.e. week. I spent almost a full week in Lisbon to attend one of the biggest technology events out there: Web Summit! Here's a summary of why I went, what I experienced and what I learned. Why I went It all started with some marketing work magically making... Continue Reading →
Dogfooding as a Pipedrive Product Manager
Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company uses its own product to test and promote the product.[1] I started actively thinking about how I ate my own dog food as a product manager when I started listening to the podcast This... Continue Reading →
Refresh Conference 2017: Key Takeaways
I spent last Friday at Refresh, a conference for Product, Design and Front End people that takes place every year in Tallinn since 2015. I don't go to conferences often, but when I do I like to come back with the feeling that I learned something new and that I interacted with fine, like-minded people.... Continue Reading →
Sprint: Review of the book and first design sprint XP!
Before running a design sprint (December 4, 2018) Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp In January 2018 I will be taking part in a Design Sprint, and I've been reading the book to dig into the details. Only then I will feel I have... Continue Reading →
Lo bueno y lo malo de estar con una startup: mi experiencia
Ya son 184 días desde que me embarqué en la tarea de explorar diferentes oportunidades con la libertad (e incertidumbre) de estar sin un trabajo fijo. En resumen, no he llegado a ninguna conclusión. Supongo que eso es bueno. O tal vez no. Así estoy. Sigo dándome cabezazos con mis propias ideas, miedos y deseos.... Continue Reading →
Maria Lasprilla 