One of the people I report to this week asked me what the difference between a Product Manager and a GREAT Product Manager. It turns out the difference is in how you answer a question. Instead of saying how difficult something is going to be to do, you just say, “consider it done!” It is kind of the culture of Microsoft, don’t say no, ask how high. In order to do a great job here, you have to realize that you’re going to be asked to do the difficult. Notice I didn’t say you’ll be asked to do the...
I usually try to post in my blog at least once a week, but I admit, I’ve been a little lacking the last few weeks. I’m now on day 5 as a Product Manager, and not surprisingly, I still don’t know what the heck I’m doing! 😃 That’s fine though, I didn’t really expect to come on and be 100% productive the first week either. And I don’t think Brian did either, at lease lets hope he didn’t 😉 There are plenty of things that I’m working on and trying to figure out. For example, the IE Developer Center has...
One of my favourite things about working for this company is the interaction I get to have with all of you, the end users, the developers, the IT professionals, the knowledge workers and so forth. In fact, over the least two or three years, I’ve been working hard to make that more part of my daily life here as a tester on Visual Web Developer. But, being a tester, I have a primary task, and interacting with the community wasn’t it. And trust me, I tried as hard as I could to make it my primary task....
One of my friends from my UNB days has posted a link to a rather interesting article titled Eight Problems That Haven’t Changed. I read it this afternoon and found it to be pretty fascinating. I agree with almost all of them but sort of disagree with one. From the article, they list the 8 problems as: Links that don’t change colour when visited Breaking the back button (Huge pet peeve of mine) Opening new browser windows Pop up windows Design elements that look like advertisements Violating web-wide...
As I was doing some of my morning infosnacking, I came across this post on slashdot. A few guys seem to have figured out how to recreate the Bellagio Fountains using only 2L bottles of diet coke, and several menthos. Check out the video at...
I figured I’d share this with both my personal and work blogs as it’s kind of funny and a little humbling. In my personal blog, I always write in smallcaps, so just ignore that fact, and hopefully you’ll get a laugh out of my morning. my friend heath and i have been rowing every morning for the last 6 weeks. after seeing summer storm about two months ago, we both got the itch. i rowed for a summer in university (thats where the b&w pic of me comes from). i only did it one season, but i still had a good...