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What is value? How do we achieve value in a product? These are some of the things people think when they talk about value products. But values are…
Agile isn’t something new. Actually, everyone in the industry thinks they do some sort of agile, even if sometimes it’s a masked version of waterfall. But one of…
Everyone today wants collaboration to work. It’s important then to ask the right questions or give space for others to ask them. Harnessing the skills and independent thinking…
The world now is quite complex, like it never was before. Not because only of the current pandemic, markets moving fast, but also companies have more complex operations…
Performance reviews are sometimes worse than filling timesheets. Not because managers have to do them, but rather because it requires an alignment between current company objectives, individual personal…
Agile, scrum, devops and all other abstract solutions are common terms nowadays in companies, startups and development teams. But the problem is that expectations are always set too…
2020 has been a very though year for everyone. From disrupting companies, life’s and families, the change that this pandemic brought is here to stay. This episode is…
For those following me here on the blog, might have noticed that I’ve been complaining about Dell lately. First of modern standby, then about the WiFi from KillerNetworking…
Most – if not all – Dell XPS model have a wifi/bluetooth card that comes from Killer Networking. As the name says, it kills most of your laptop…
In short, Dell is screwing around Windows Modern Standby (CS3) and with Windows 10 20H2 some power options are removed. So what we would do before with power…
Every leader wants to get the best performance from their team. In companies, the importance of learning on the job and continuous employee development can’t be overstated. But…
We are currently working remotely and a lot of companies are already positioning themselves as a remote first ones. So managers need to rethink the way they measure…
You can do dense documents, using the SMART goals, held weekly meetings, use a multitude of tools, but the magic metric in companies in my opinion are clear…
A lot of people talk about how tough it is to work with developers, especially if you come from a non-technical background. So on this video I’ll talk…
Influencers are the new QVC people. If you look at it, what we are now seeing is a new rebranding of the old days of telesales. And now…
Funny thing that a few years ago, I worked at a company that was using the mantra of “no ticket not task”, which lead me to write a…
There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products….
There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products….
There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products….
When you do Agile, are you aligned to the methodology or just the tools and frameworks? Are you still on Waterfall and what keeps you there? And now…
What does remote working, no-code/low-code and abstractions have in common? They are both driving the software industry obsolete. And now about this…
When we state that the work we love with “not really working,” it propagates a belief that if we love it so much, we should do more of…
Lateral thinking involves a dialogue in which questions are asked to uncover more information in order to devise a solution. Which should be the base for all innovation….
After waterfall, agile and devops, the concept for enterprise software delivery is value stream. So to understand value stream mapping, we need to first understand what a “value…
Successful companies build MindMaps, not cool products. So, taking a problem to solution mapping, in a user’s brain is crucial. And now about this…
On the previous episode, I talked about the need of a platform product manager, but conducting empirical market and user research of innovative solutions, often start with a…
The other day I talked about product societies, but actually it’s better to build a platform rather than a product and you definitely need a platform product manager….
It’s been more than 3 months since covid lock down and few weeks after black lives matter. But bottom line, this has been a big bandwagon for companies…
Now About This, is a new series of videos I’ll be doing here on LinkedIn. This one is about how Apple is building an operating system for health….
It was in January of 2018 when I launched TechCoffee, as an experiment both for the Alexa Flash Briefings (daily news that you can pull up on Alexa)…
I’ve been doing lots of live streams recently (40+ at the moment) between Tech Talks London (TTL) and Prima Qualquer Tecla (PQT), so having automation to control OBS…
Few weeks ago I did a short post about my experience with OBS, Skype and NDI, called “Streaming for the masses“. Bottom line, if you want to stream…
[update: https://prt.sc/fixing-skype-resizing-ndi-plugin-and-obs/] With this virus lock down, people have started to do more videos and some went to the full extend of going live. Funny enough, I did…
One of the things I really love when flying my drones is to get some aerial view of stuff I didn’t knew it was there. I’ve been here…
Recent news in Publico – one of the Portuguese largest newspapers – tells the story of how WebSummit is holding Lisbon Council (and City) to ransom. The most…
I’ve written more than once the little things Windows 10 and Surface laptops or tablets do to my inner peace. Those little annoyances that at the end of…
I’ve been a big fan of Alexa and it’s platform, so much that I do a Flash Briefing skill called Tech Coffee for the past 227 episodes. Also,…
Portugal in a nutshell: basically the cosmetic move done by the socialist government has made some success. People feel more entitled to be entrepreneurs, but they still lack…
Doing TechCoffee as an Alexa Skill for the past 206 episodes it requires the audio to be close to studio quality. Unfortunately not many can afford their own…
It’s no news that the ARM platform created by Qualcomm is quite amazing. Specially for phones, where Android operating system raised to the most used system in the…
!0 years ago, after putting together a list of more than 120 Portuguese bloggers in one place (prt.sc), I thought about how could video be the next big…
So, one of the things Windows 10 brings along is the new security dashboards and health checks. This are rather interesting and we should always look at them…
“Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back to the place I was before ‘Relax’ said the night man,…
GDPR is almost here and we’re all getting those emails to confirm that we really want to still receive newsletters, alerts, notifications, news and updates. If you don’t…
TechCoffee is an Alexa Flash Briefing skill that give you a quick update (less than 2 minutes) of daily curated tech news. Like a morning shot of coffee,…
One decade ago I pitched an idea to multiple people in Portugal, mostly those that were already established doing TV and regular shows, to invest into a new…
This year has been quite busy professionally and I’ve split most of my free time with a new videocast with two friends at @TechTalksLondon where we’ve finished a…
On my first try shooting with the DJI Phantom, I got pretty much everything from strong winds to flying rats
I’ve been recently participating in some Industry 4.0 projects, mostly related to global wine companies, where they actually have the need and the will to transform themselves, look…