Every Monday morning I sit down and run the metrics for all of my products for the past week. I do this in order to make sense of what was happening with them, as well as to track their long term progress. Why every week? I found weekly metrics worked the best for me because [...]
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Working freelance one on, three off
Over the past few years freelancing I’ve been testing different styles of scheduling my client services. Typically freelance projects are either spread out (20/hours a week for 6 weeks) or are bunched up into large chunks (40/hours a week for 3 weeks). Neither of these have felt that good to me. Spread out or in [...]
Bootstrapping Design
Jarrod (a 30×500 member) just launched his ebook, Bootstrapping Design. I had the privilege to read his early drafts and I highly recommend it for developers and product builders. Bootstrapping Design was written at the perfect time for me. One of the guiding principles I’m building into Chirk HR is that software should be easy [...]
Chirk HR – Launching Soon
I have great news today. After months of research and development I’m happy to unveil a new product I’ve been working on. Chirk HR is a web application for human resource professionals to find and hire better applicants. Using the pool of applicants that every job posting generates, Chirk HR will let HR reuse the [...]
Four Lessons I Learned Offering a Pre-Order For My Ebook
Recently I launched my third ebook, Redmine Tips. I learned a lot from Refactoring Redmine’s launch so I experimented with some new ideas to see what could happen. The biggest change this time around was offering the product for pre-orders. After talking with some advisers I decided to accept pre-orders for Redmine Tips. The pre-order [...]
Redmine Tips Has Launched
It’s finally here… Redmine Tips is now available for sale! After almost 12 months of writing, two months of editing, and countless tweaking I’m calling it done (at least for now). This sucker packs 51 tips into 75 pages with a bit over 13,000 words. In addition to the PDF ebook, I’m also including the [...]
Final 4 days to Pre-Order Redmine Tips
After several weeks of pre-orders, my ebook Redmine Tips is finishing up this week. This mean that I’ll be closing pre-orders this Friday, September 30th (along with removing the pre-order discount). Redmine Tips is a collection of productivity tips for Redmine. I’ve discovered them through working and talking to dozens of project managers and hundreds [...]