Product Management
Product management is the strategic oversight of a product throughout its lifecycle, focusing on defining its vision, features, and roadmap to meet market needs and business goals (while project management is the tactical execution of specific initiatives with defined timelines, resources, and deliverables).
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Staff Rounding Dashboard
“Rounding” is a practice borrowed from healthcare leadership where administrators make regular, structured check-ins with their staff. Rather than waiting for annual surveys or hoping problems surface on their own, rounding gives…
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Biomimicry in Learning: Coyotes & Adaptive Funding Strategies
This piece has been folded into Biomimicry as a Lens: Coyotes, Pine Cones, and Prairie Grass, which consolidates the four-part series into one essay. The coyote section is there.
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You Should Offer PD as a Gift
Revised September 2026. The original version of this piece started from Robin Wall Kimmerer and ended up making a business case, treating free help as relationship capital that turns into contracts. That’s…
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Action, Information, Rest: Cycles of Design
I keep returning to a single line from Ursula K. Le Guin that has quietly shaped how I approach both learning design and my own professional development: “When action grows unprofitable, gather…
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Thought Technology: The Arguments Inside Our Frameworks
Revised September 2026. The original version of this piece treated concepts, symbols, and frameworks as neutral tools and recommended a handful of them, including “pipeline” and “return on investment,” without asking what…
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The Push and Pull Communication Approach
This article has moved into Homegrown Learning, where push and pull communication is now part of the Develop phase’s material on keeping a team aligned. You can find the book, free and…
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Audio-Only Options: Do You Really Need Instructional Videos?
Ask most people building a course how to make it better and the answer usually involves more video: a welcome video, a video per module, a recorded walkthrough of every page. Video…
