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Jeff Bordogna @jeffthink
Joined February 2009
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Jeff Bordogna@jeffthink
15 Jul 2020
Was asked by a former colleague what made our product/engineering team so great. My response: 1) Collaborative / low-ego people working in 2) a creative / low-friction environment on 3) a product that we clearly loved / wanted to see exist in the world.
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I’m a big fan of agile practices, but some organizations start taking their first “we’re becoming agile” steps without the clarity of where they’re heading, and end up expending a lot of unnecessary energy as a result. nighttrain.co/beware-the-fal…

Beware the false summit!

Is your organization taking the first steps up some proverbial mountain without clarity of what the path to the summit looks like?

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Looking to improve the way in which your company plans and ships valuable stuff? Here’s a diagram and scorecard I put together as a key part of my consulting practice. nighttrain.co/a-guide-to-set…

A guide to setting your company’s operating cadence

A diagram and scorecard that you can use to improve how your organization plans and delivers value to customers.

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Are you a middle manager looking to prove your worth? Here’s a new metaphor you can use to give gravitas to your role. 🙂 nighttrain.co/manager-as-an-…

Manager as an ozone layer

Less “managers as shields” and “managers as sh*t umbrellas” metaphors, please.

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Many organizations claim to be “data-driven”; most of them suck at it. I wrote a blog post sharing lessons learned and artifacts that I’ve used in my data consulting practice that I hope you find helpful. nighttrain.co/stop-boiling-t…

Stop boiling the data ocean

It’s wild how many organizations invest in data initiatives without the clarity of what questions they’re trying to answer or how they’ll ensure the quality of reporting.

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I was fortunate enough to be part of an extremely impactful product launch in the online grocery space. Here's what happened and how we did it. nighttrain.co/how-product-ma…

How product management can double customer LTV

I was fortunate enough to be part of an extremely impactful product launch in the online grocery space. Here's what happened and how we did it.

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The process of building digital products often feels like being stuck in traffic. Here’s a post with a simple idea / diagram / crappy drawing for exploring that metaphor. nighttrain.co/installing-ram…

Installing ramp meters on your product roadmap

I’ve found that a simple technique for improving product delivery involves “installing ramp meters” by committing to a clear cross-team cadence for reevaluating priorities.

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Me: mom and I are going to listen to a podcast. Son: let me guess; it’s on the history of boring things. Me: 😶
I wrote a blog post turning my pain of being woken up often by my children into “art”. Enjoy :) nighttrain.co/what-is-the-ch…

What is the chance that my kids let me sleep tonight?

What is the probability of a full night’s sleep for my family on any given night? How does that change over time? Do I want to even know?

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“Big lion has a fever forever because he ate a million bees and they won’t stop stinging him” - my 5yr old daughter Move over, Dante.
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Chloe Condon@ChloeCondon
14 Feb 2022
The beauty of non-traditional background folks entering tech is the creativity and new perspectives it brings to an industry that so desperately needs more variety. If you don't think you belong in tech: trust me: we need you. ❤️
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The age-old question: what does a product manager do? nighttrain.co/product-manage…

Product managers build bridges

Just as a bridge creates new value by connecting previously unconnected pieces of land, a product manager creates new value by connecting previously unconnected user needs and organization-supplied...

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My kids have been home from school for 3 weeks straight due to holidays, snowstorms, and Covid cases. #Encanto has been the soundtrack to my family’s life during this time, and we couldn’t have asked for a better one. Thank you, @Disney @EncantoMovie!
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Me: Oh look, we have the whole playground to ourselves! My 4 children:
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I'm excited to share that I'm one of the newest members of the @18F team! I'm looking forward to playing a small part in helping improve people's lives and in reshaping the narrative of what amazing user experiences around government services can look like.
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This thread 😢...
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It seems more and more like Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg's lifetime project to escape reality, and that's pretty sad when you think about it.
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Where I talk about the ways in which hiring managers should evaluate their applicants, how they largely aren't doing so, and what an applicant can do to overcome these challenges...
Shift Enter@ShiftEnterVA
16 Aug 2021
Save the date, our Job Seekers’ Workshop is on Sept 11. We’re proud to announce our keynote speaker: Jeff Bordogna (@jeffthink)! He’s a product strategy consultant & works at Myth Talent helping the Cville tech community through advising & job match-making shiftenter.org/tickets
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"Stanley and his parents didn't believe in curses, of course, but whenever anything went wrong, it felt good to be able to blame someone."
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I'm not one to hate on Microsoft, but I can't tell you how many times I've been hunting down a bizarre config / permissions issue and come across a comment thread like this:
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Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art. - @neilhimself (youtube.com/watch?v=plWexCID…)
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