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Product Management

This is a collection of hopefully helpful links on Product Management.

Books

• Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories . A great book about agile business analysis, that gives practical techniques and examples of how to break
• Impact Mapping.
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
• Escaping the Build Trap Book

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Plain Text Productivity System

Goals

• Everything should be in plain text, using the markdown format, to ensure maximum portability.
• The style should mimic bullet journal to and it easy to import written notes.
• Files should live in cloud drive, like Dropbox or OneDrive.
• Grep-ability.

Structure

Files are created for each day and placed into a directory that corresponds to the year.

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commands = {}

def command(function):
    commands[function.__name__] = function

@command
def us_command(context):
    print("us_command - " + str(context))

@command

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am jdunne on github.
• I am johndunne (https://keybase.io/johndunne) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASCXNWFChX7jLC1xxZIG3UiFVhXwqs2RdlVdq7SvrBDpYAo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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"""
anagram.py - Finds anagrams in stdin.
"""
import sys
import collections

anagrams = collections.defaultdict(list)

for line in sys.stdin:
    word = line.rstrip()

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// One solution is to pass a default value into the method.
string uri = configFile.GetValueOrDefault(“serviceUri”, 
                                          “http://example.com/service");
ConnectToService(uri);

// Another possibility is to introduce a Maybe type to hold the return value.
Maybe<string> uri = configFile.GetValue(“serviceUri”); 
if(uri.HasValue)
{
    ConnectToService(uri.HasValue ? 

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string uri = configFile.GetValue(“serviceUri”); 
if(uri == null)
{
    uri = “http://example.com/service";
}
ConnectToService(uri);

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class Service
{
    class NullAuditor : IAuditor
    {
        void RecordThatSomethingWasDone()
        {
            // does nothing
        }
    }
    

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class Service
{
    public void DoSomething(IAuditor auditor = null)
    {
        // do something…
        if(auditor != null)
        {
            auditor.RecordThatSomethingWasDone();
        }
    }

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class Service
{
    private readonly IAuditor _defaultAuditor = new StandardAuditor();
    
    public void DoSomething()
    {
        DoSomething(_defaultAuditor);
    }
    
    public void DoSomething(IAuditor auditor)