Don’t know anything about OKRs? Read The Art of the OKR first, and/or Personal OKRs. Also, personal OKRs are […]
Personal OKRs, Three Years Later
Creative Founder Class is Available!
At California College of the Arts, Creative Founder is that elective that students tell each other “You have […]
After NaNoWriMo
If you’ve never heard the acronym Nanowrimo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. Each November half a […]
Everybody Knows
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is […]
Sprinting from Story to Offering
Part 3 of the Needfinding/Ideation/MVP Creation Charette This is the third part of a three part essay on rapid […]
Ideation Sprints for New Products & Services
Part Two of the Needfinding/Ideation/MVP Creation Charette This is the second part of a three part essay on rapid […]
Needfinding for Disruptive Innovation
Part One of the Needfinding/Ideation/MVP Creation Charette A startup must be in the business of disruptive innovation. Making a […]
For TinyLIpsum, with Love and Stories
I’ve been teaching storytelling for a couple of years now, and have discovered there is a particular shape that […]
Size Matters
Part of a series of essays for the Creative Founder class at CCA. Previously: What is a Market? […]
How to Make a Concept Model
Originally published in Boxes and Arrows May 6th, 2014. I realized recently I never published this here, on my […]
Picking a Market
In the Creative Founder, students are paired semi-randomly, and then spend a semester trying to get to product-market […]
What is a Market?
This is the first of a series of essays for my class, The Creative Founder. Follow our progress […]
The Three Jobs of Product Management
No matter how hard and long you work, there are only 24 hours in a day. If you […]
GUEST POST: A Map from Goals, Around Assumptions, Through Tasks, Towards Results
As I prepare for the fall semester, John has kindly agreed to a guest post, sharing some of […]
One Objective to Rule them All
@cwodtke Would you recommend that a company has only one top level objective? — Lukas Dryja (@nizm) August […]
Teaching Game Design in Non-Game Design Programs
This fall, I am teaching a class on game design, which prompted this post: A letter to my […]
In Defence of Childish Things: UX Week Talk
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire […]
A Joy Project
Last spring, a class I was going to teach got cancelled because of a scheduling mixup. I got […]
Why Key Results Need to Be Results
If you know nothing about OKRs, please start here: Art of the OKR. Or buy my book, Radical Focus. […]
Beyond the Slide
It’s 2006, and I’m sitting in the office of my pal Rasmi’s company, Uzanto. We’ve been chatting about […]
In Praise of Q&A
At a recent conference, I ran into the organizer at the first coffee break of the morning. She […]
Design All the Things! UX Lausanne Talk
Opening keynote, Lausanne, Switzerland. Christina Wodtke – Design All the Things! from UX Lausanne on Vimeo. Designers fall […]
Story in Space
This is a post for my Story class students, posted here in case it’s interesting to my readers. […]
NEW: Report on OKRs from O’Reilly
Introduction to OKRs is free on the O’Reilly site. If you’ve read my book and blog, much will […]
Are you tired?
After coming home exhausted from a very social weekend, my coach the wonderful Andrea Corney asked me, what […]
GUEST POST: OKR for Agile Teams
I’ve really excited to announce this guest post by Felipe Castro. One of the most common questions I […]
Product as Hero Storyboard
Long time readers know I am completely obsessed with story architecture, and use it in many things: writing (of […]
Tracking and Evaluating OKRs
Two weeks before the end of the quarter, it’s time to grade your OKRs, and plan for the […]
Narrative and Games
Each spring break, for my Story class, I assign a project of playing a game with a strong […]
The Myths of UX Design/ Product Design/Whatever They Call It This Week
As with my other “myth” article, it starts with me reading an essay, frothing at the mouth a […]