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"Eating your own dogfood" is a rough metaphor for a crucial action: using your own product, so that you understand it from both sides.

How do you communicate everything you are in the space of a single browser window? You best know.

Timekeeping is tedious and often frustrating, so why not delegate it?

Building against a half-formed idea won't impress anyone, least of all your customers

Recording time can be a tedious process with little return. Make the effort earn its keep.

A core problem in project management is how we measure progress. If the ruler isn't grounded in reality, every answer it gives you is fiction.

Overhead is (almost) anything work isn't it. Make sure you measure it.

IT spent decades relearning a production discipline that had already been solved.

Be optimistic, but ground it in reality