simpsoka

Do I want to die on this hill?

• Pass: This is morally good and if not handled has long term consequences
• Fail: This if self serving

Am I including everyone?

• Pass: My ego is not driving this conversation
• Fail: The people in this conversation will only tell me I'm right and not push back

vikramrojo

Product Designer Onsite Questions

Customer Success

• What is the biggest challenge users face with the product?
• Are there any significant drop off points in the experience?
• What are some features users are expecting or inquire about?

Engineering

• How much of things built come from designs?
• What areas of the product do you feel need design support?
• How much of the product does design typically touch?

muan

Update: See https://github.com/muan/details-on-details instead.

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I did a talk at Brooklyn JS called Details on <details> on 2018/07/19. I have way more details prepared than the ones that fit in the slides, so here's the real details on <details>. ❤️

– @muan

Spec

r00k

Retro Questions

• KPI dashboard review
• Since our last retro, what's gone well?
• How do we feel about our productivity and work/life balance
• How is the product better than last week?
• How is the company better than last week?
• Is there anything we should ask a consultant about?
• How is the office/ops?
• How can we enjoy the journey more?

mrmartineau

Stimulus cheatsheet

• Website: https://stimulusjs.org/
• GitHub repo: https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus
• Handbook: https://stimulusjs.org/handbook/introduction
• Discourse: https://discourse.stimulusjs.org/

Lifecycle callbacks

• initialize: once, when the controller is first instantiated
• connect: anytime the controller is connected to the DOM

mrmrs

How not to scale css

Several years ago I got curious about how css worked at scale. When I first started out, there weren’t nearly as many learning resources as there are now. CSS zen garden was amazing, at the time it showed how much you could change a design without altering the html.

In the beginning, that’s what people sold me as a feature. By writing css, you could make a change one place and have it propagate everywhere. In principle this sounds pretty good. I’m lazy so I like doing things one time. But eleven years later, my experience on both large and small teams is that this is the most terrifying thing about css.

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/493790680397803521

In the past few years a lot of very smart people have been thinking more about CSS and this has lead to some fascinating discussions around how to build ‘scalable’ ui and how that relates to CSS. When I first started to think about scalability I naturally started to read every blog post and watch every tech talk I could get

simpsoka

Product managers

• Seek out failure, it teaches us to think like a scientist. If you start with a hypothesis, then try to prove yourself wrong, you’re bound to make much better decisions. You have to be willing to fail, and that in itself is going to help you build confidence and be more convicted about what your strategy is in the end.
• There are hundreds of methods for building products and running teams. As a quality PM, it's important to have an open mind about all of it, but finding your own process and philosophy can be grounding. It helps you find your pillars so that you don't smash into things while you're building. Remember, however, that you can always find a budget for remodeling. 😉
• The beauty of a good process is when it just becomes how you do your work. When you forget you're following a process at all is when you know the process is working for you, your team, your company, and your customers.
• The advice I give new Product Managers or PMs coming onto a team for the first