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@TranslinkMetro no sign of 18.17 4D again?? Why??? Multiple 5A Braniel buses go past🙄

@TranslinkMetro Does this include the 4D @ 17.47 which hasn't turned up again?

#MET #GLIDER #ULB #GLE Delays & disruption expected to bus services this evening due to traffic congestion across #Belfast City centre.

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The 3 stages of career development: 1. I want to be in the meeting 2. I want to run the meeting 3. I want to avoid meetings

Every engineer complains about tech debt. If you're not technical, these complaints can be hard to understand. Use this cheat sheet to help you: 1️⃣ Identify which type your team is facing 2️⃣ Have a productive conversation with your engineers

Many people confuse OKRs and KPIs They're both about measuring against goals, so what's the difference? I love this extremely tactical 1-pager:

Friendly reminder: Your monthly metrics will be down ~7% in February because leap year February is ~7% shorter than January. Please do not contact your data team about it.

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I just found out about recency bias, and I’d have to say that out of all the biases, it’s my favourite.

@ReidWeb Ended up getting the glider and getting soaked too!! That coupled with translink strike next weekend and I'm about done with our bus service 😒

@TranslinkMetro second time this week the 4D bus from Donegall Sq East just hasn't turned up. A crowd of people here waiting for it at 3.50pm, no sign 😠

I recently talked about User Stories on my YouTube channel, and got asked by several people about how I would deal with "Back End Stories", so here is a thread User stories for "Back End" vs User stories for "Front End" a #Thread 1/14

This is absolutely brilliant dannorth.net/mckinsey-revie…

I like this breakdown of different types of PMs. So far I've only been a Core PM. At some point in my career I definitely want to try Growth.

4 rules I swear by: 1. Lead people, manage work 2. You need focus, not more capacity 3. If you can't explain it, you don't understand it 4. Without upfront expectations, you can't give feedback

Just bc it comes up a lot: Teaching vs mentoring vs coaching It's all a spectrum & you float between. Diff hats with diff purpose. Some might limited themselves to only operating in one spot on the spectrum but the best coaches/mentors/teachers/etc I've met float up and down.

A handy product management primer on all key concepts one needs to be aware of From ideation ➡️ launch👇

@hiler88 Well done you guys!!!!!

Great run & great company😎

Many new engineering managers come to the job full of frustration at the shitty management they have endured and/or witnessed, and determined not to inflict the same shit on their teams. And they don't! 💕 Instead, they make new mistakes...like these. charity.wtf/2023/06/19/thr…