Roger Swannell
@rogerswannell.com
Usually wrong. Never done.
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#Weeknotes 486, featuring DevSecOps, problemism, continuous digital transformation, no more boxes, no more MVPs, getting stuff wrong, from industrial to internet mindset, every team needs, tension in product strategy, compound interest & keeping up with the market
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Weeknotes 486 | Roger Swannell
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November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
#Weeknotes 486, featuring DevSecOps, problemism, continuous digital transformation, no more boxes, no more MVPs, getting stuff wrong, from industrial to internet mindset, every team needs, tension in product strategy, compound interest & keeping up with the market
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Chaos test your org. Tell a leader to suddenly take a week off with no handover and find out how much of a bottleneck or single point of failure they are.
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Chaos test your org. Tell a leader to suddenly take a week off with no handover and find out how much of a bottleneck or single point of failure they are.
If your roadmap is your backlog turned sideways, it's not a roadmap.
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
If your roadmap is your backlog turned sideways, it's not a roadmap.
NHS: "Your experience matters"... if you're giving (e.g., donating blood). If you're getting... not so much.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
NHS: "Your experience matters"... if you're giving (e.g., donating blood). If you're getting... not so much.
Product request: post-it notes with glue on all four edges for sticking on laptops.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Product request: post-it notes with glue on all four edges for sticking on laptops.
Evidence trumps opinion.
Evidence doesn't trump Trump's opinion.
Evidence doesn't trump Trump's opinion.
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Evidence trumps opinion.
Evidence doesn't trump Trump's opinion.
Evidence doesn't trump Trump's opinion.
Reposted by Roger Swannell
The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots.
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Conversational Design — MULE BOOKS
The interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck
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November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Microsoft Teams, just so you know, more notifications does not equal better engagement.
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Microsoft Teams, just so you know, more notifications does not equal better engagement.
So many books start strong and finish weak.
What's going on there? Do authors get bored? Do they not really have enough ideas? Do they expect readers not to finish their book?
What's going on there? Do authors get bored? Do they not really have enough ideas? Do they expect readers not to finish their book?
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So many books start strong and finish weak.
What's going on there? Do authors get bored? Do they not really have enough ideas? Do they expect readers not to finish their book?
What's going on there? Do authors get bored? Do they not really have enough ideas? Do they expect readers not to finish their book?
You know we only have to be productive so we can be more consumptive, right?
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You know we only have to be productive so we can be more consumptive, right?
#Weeknotes 485, featuring lots of talking, bets, leadership of the future, five dysfunctions, products about people, AI search and the problem with alignment.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#Weeknotes 485, featuring lots of talking, bets, leadership of the future, five dysfunctions, products about people, AI search and the problem with alignment.
rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...
rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...
Full stops are just so... final.
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Full stops are just so... final.
Number plate O V11NCE
I wonder what Vince did.
I wonder what Vince did.
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Number plate O V11NCE
I wonder what Vince did.
I wonder what Vince did.
#Weeknotes 484, featuring thinking big starting small, management by objectives, AI when there's no right answer, service patterns, sociotechnical principles, strategic levers, Mcdonaldization is not a product strategy and the elephant and the knowledge workers
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Weeknotes 484 | Roger Swannell
rogerswannell.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#Weeknotes 484, featuring thinking big starting small, management by objectives, AI when there's no right answer, service patterns, sociotechnical principles, strategic levers, Mcdonaldization is not a product strategy and the elephant and the knowledge workers
rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...
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Imagine how much good you could do in the world with a trillion dollars.
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Imagine how much good you could do in the world with a trillion dollars.
Copilot thinks my emails should be rewritten to be more professional. How rude.
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Copilot thinks my emails should be rewritten to be more professional. How rude.
Reposted by Roger Swannell
Hallo!
The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.
You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...
Please take 3 mins to feed back.
🙌Danke,
Imran
The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.
You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...
Please take 3 mins to feed back.
🙌Danke,
Imran
Adding rounded corners to buttons · alphagov govuk-design-system · Discussion #4941
Background The Design System team is exploring new styling options, including rounded corners for buttons, following the GOV.UK brand refresh. We want to make sure the changes we make are not purel...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hallo!
The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.
You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...
Please take 3 mins to feed back.
🙌Danke,
Imran
The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.
You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...
Please take 3 mins to feed back.
🙌Danke,
Imran
Mcdonaldization is not a product strategy.
November 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Mcdonaldization is not a product strategy.
Number plate: AG11 LTY
She trains dogs to jump through hoops.
She trains dogs to jump through hoops.
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Number plate: AG11 LTY
She trains dogs to jump through hoops.
She trains dogs to jump through hoops.
#Weeknotes 483, featuring assessing opportunities, creating team coherence, insights library, a year of task tracking, fewer managers, agents shopping, written word channel and culture, flywheel or marginal gains, and blank slate vs building-on.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
#Weeknotes 483, featuring assessing opportunities, creating team coherence, insights library, a year of task tracking, fewer managers, agents shopping, written word channel and culture, flywheel or marginal gains, and blank slate vs building-on.
rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...
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I never got a Bronze Swimming Certificate and I feel let down by the entire education system.
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I never got a Bronze Swimming Certificate and I feel let down by the entire education system.
Kanban rules my world
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Kanban rules my world
No retreat. No surrender.
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 AM
No retreat. No surrender.