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  1. Making Decisions and Keeping a Product Team Firing on all Cylinders

    To ship early and often, a high-functioning product team should steer clear of these common decision-making pitfalls.

    Mike Wenger
    April 19, 2018
    • Teams
    • Process
    • Productivity
    • Analytics
    • Playbook
  2. Tell Me When It Closes: Bookmarklet

    Tired of copying and pasting GitHub URLs for Tell Me When It Closes? We’ve got you covered.

    Matt Sumner
    May 9, 2017
    • News
    • Git
    • Tools
    • Productivity
  3. Are You For Real?

    Identify and manage your Imposter Syndrome.

    Melissa Xie
    March 16, 2017
    • Happiness
    • Productivity
  4. Introducing Pipe it Down

    Sometimes pull requests are full of noise and it’s difficult to cut through to what matters. Pipe it Down is a Chrome extension to help with that.

    Chris Thorn
    March 8, 2017
    • DevTools
    • Unity
    • Productivity
  5. Investment Time

    Since 2010, we have dedicated Friday every week to “investment time”, unstructured self-directed time undedicated to client work. Here’s how it works and what we’ve learned.

    Ian Zabel and Dan Croak
    February 10, 2017
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  6. Shell Script Suggestions for Speedy Setups

    Is your team setup for success? Do they have the tools to deliver working software? Step zero is being able to get setup quickly.

    Matt Sumner
    January 12, 2017
    • Shell
    • Productivity
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  7. Align GitHub-Flavored Markdown Tables in Vim

    GitHub lets you create pretty tables in Markdown. Keeping those tables pretty in the source code doesn’t have to be painful.

    Dan Croak
    June 15, 2016
    • Vim
    • Productivity
  8. Running Acceptance with Heroku Review Apps

    Generate staging environments automatically for each pull request.

    Tute Costa
    April 22, 2016
    • Heroku
    • Productivity
  9. Start Simple

    Ship faster by starting simple.

    Blake Williams
    March 21, 2016
    • Productivity
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  10. Ten Years of the Giant Robots Blog

    Today marks 10 years of writing, editing, and publishing this blog, Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots. Here’s a few things we did along the way to improve our happiness and the quality of the content.

    Dan Croak, Joël Quenneville & Gabe Berke-Williams
    November 6, 2015
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