Choosing the best social media network to pursue your open source community engagement goals

There are quite a few examples of how to use this concept you can look up (I liked this one, this one, and this one), but it boils down to answering the question: "to what level of detail can you specify the attributes of someone who is likely to use (or contribute to) your open source software project". You may find that your existing project participants can help you form a good baseline to start from.

The Shippers Ep 034 with Kevin Packer

In this episode we meet Kevin Packer who put his decade of product management experience to work developing "values-based living"; a way of living like the the person you want to be. Kevin told me that empathetic communication is 80% of product management, and that he found writing online was a way to validate the ideas he wanted to turn into a book and lighting beacons to attract like-minded people.

7 basic questions that lead to an actually useful strategy, and how to answer them with a Wardley Map

If you want to figure out the best solution to a given problem, you have to first understand the situation you are in. Most people skip the “situation” step, and wind up with a strategy that isn’t anchored in reality. I’ve been working on a leadership development program about understanding, communicating, and executing strategy for … Continue reading 7 basic questions that lead to an actually useful strategy, and how to answer them with a Wardley Map