Courtesy of Fact of Day 1 A RACI chart is a matrix used to assign roles and responsibilities for milestones of a project. Mapping out ownership eliminates the confusion of “who’s doing what?” Responsible: The team member owning completion. Accountable: The team member who validates the deliverable before it’s deemed complete. Consulted: The people who […]
An instrument for decomposing complex problems into simplified solutions, is the strategy of first principles thinking, often otherwise known as reasoning from first principles, and is often leveraged by self-made geniuses such as Elon Musk. In other words, a form of mental reverse engineering. Techtello best puts it as realigning your mindset to demarcate from […]
Amazon’s catalyst for innovation lies in its perspective to always think from the customer backwards. That’s how most successful projects get done, and it all starts with the commonly used Amazonian phrase, working backwards. Before building a charter, a project plan and setting out timelines, the first artifact that a customer-centric project entails is the […]
You’re probably not being ghosted. — Read on hbr.org/amp/2021/01/how-to-follow-up-with-someone-whos-not-getting-back-to-you
When writing formal annual planning documents at Amazon, Operational Planning 1 (OP1), there is an FAQ that is always inserted, and it is more of a phrase, “Dogs not barking”. It is an essential FAQ item to help ensure the author or authors of the OP1 document cover not just the obvious topics and initiatives, […]
13 years after Twilio first launched, CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson opens up about the peaks and valleys to share a set of unconventional company building lessons on how to get better as you scale — from introducing new products and refining go-to-market strategies, to focusing annual planning and making post-mortems more effective. — Read […]
We practice this at Prime Video as well, to help us innovate and improve. Feature flags to ship faster and to lower the risk of deployments. — Read on github.blog/2021-04-27-ship-code-faster-safer-feature-flags/
I’ve been at Amazon for just under a year, at the time of writing, and as I approach my first anniversary, I reflect on how I got on this crazy, exciting merry-go-ride, they call Prime Video. I wanted to put down my thoughts on screen as to how I prepared for the interviews, what the […]
I’ve been at Amazon for just under a year, at the time of writing, and as I approach my first anniversary, I reflect on how I got on this crazy, exciting merry-go-ride, they call Prime Video. I wanted to put down my thoughts on screen as to how I prepared for the interviews, what the […]
Analyzing the future through a crystal ball is not enough. Creating upfront, fixed plans doesn’t work. Instead, we need to be ready for continuous change, be adaptive, creative, and resilient, and adjust quickly with “just in time” planning and execution. — Read on www.zdnet.com/article/make-agile-a-stepping-stone-toward-future-fit-adaptability/
