Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Jade Robbins Product Management - Software Development ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://jaderobbins.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://jaderobbins.com/blog/) - [New Project Launched: AgileTask!](https://jaderobbins.com/2010/08/new-project-launched-agiletask/) - Today I am proud to announce that Robert Lund, Mark Sanborn, and myself have launched a new web project: AgileTask. What is AgileTask? AgileTask is a to-do list application that follows many agile project management philosophies. We focus primarily on having a backlog (Icebox) of all tasks you need to accomplish and selectively moving those backlog - [Video: Lightning Talk at Big Sky Dev Con 2017](https://jaderobbins.com/2017/08/video-lightning-talk-at-big-sky-dev-con-2017/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3r_eEZiux0&t=24m28s This summer at Big Sky Dev Con 2017 I was fortunate enough to give a quick lightning talk on the nature of user stories and how to take them to the next level. I want to thank the organizers for the opportunity to speak and putting together such a great event! For more information - [What is Your Workshop?](https://jaderobbins.com/2016/01/what-is-your-workshop/) - Sometimes when trying to be productive or particularly creative, I run a little exercise to help me focus and calm down. It doesn't take more than a couple minutes. Let's do this: Sit back and relax. Find a comfy, quiet spot that doesn't have distractions Close your eyes, try to clear your mind. If you - [Hate Ubuntu's Unity? Use Ubuntu Classic](https://jaderobbins.com/2011/04/hate-ubuntus-unity-use-ubuntu-classic/) - I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, only to immediately decide that I hated the new Unity windowing system. DON'T PANIC. You can still use your wonderful Gnome-ness in Ubuntu with little hassle. When logging in, click on your user, and down in at the bottom there is a little selection box that says "Ubuntu". Click - [Getting Things Done in Gmail](https://jaderobbins.com/2010/01/getting-things-done-in-gmail/) - Email is the go-to technology in the world today. Everyone has adopted it, and everyone uses it as their de facto communication standard. Being it's so ubiquitous, email can be over used and to many professionals today overwhelming. That is why I adopted the David Allen "Getting Things Done" model to my email. Create a - [Meeting Tip: Tear Down the Wall of Laptops](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/03/meeting-tip-tear-down-the-wall-of-laptops/) - All to often when we go to meetings we bring our laptops with us, this isn’t inherently bad because hey can be a very useful tool for a meeting. This is all well and good, but even a 12 or 13 inch laptop (the smaller form factor of regular laptops) can create what I like to call the wall of laptops. - [Use Outside Information Carefully](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/07/use-outside-information-carefully/) - Often on the Faceoff podcast, Mark Sanborn and I talk about how much we love APIs and accessibility to 3rd party tools. While I still agree with that opinion, always make sure that your third party content isn't bogging down your site. I just went to site who had SO MANY social "add this to - [New Recording Equipment](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/06/new-recording-equipment/) - In an effort to make the Faceoff podcast sound as good as possible, I just purchased a new MXL 990 microphone so that both Mark and I will have silky smooth recordings. Remember that if you have suggestions or ideas for Faceoff to go to our feedback page and let us know! - [Putting My Dobo to Work!](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/04/putting-my-dobo-to-work/) - I mentioned earlier on my blog that I was getting a Drobo, well Mark Sanborn and I have started putting our Drobo's to good use. Not only are they doing our redundant storage but we also use each other's computers/Drobos as off-site backup storage! You can read his article on Nixtutor to find out how - [31DBBB Assignment 3: Promotion](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/04/31dbbb-assignment-3-promotion/) - The third assignment for our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge is to promote our post from yesterday (or any other posts we have). So to promote I've tweeted, facebooked, and even Stumbled my list post, but some of the best promotion you can get is blog-to-blog promotion so here goes! If you - [31DBBB Assignment 2: A List Post](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/04/31dbbb-assignment-2-a-list-post/) - The second assignment for our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge is to create a list post. My list post for Montana Fragfest is "5 Biggest Differences Between PC and Console Gaming". Check it out, your comments are always appreciated. - [31DBBB Assignment 1: Elevator Pitch](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/04/31dbbb-assignment-1-elevator-pitch/) - The first assignment for our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge is to create an elevator pitch. Here is my elevator pitch for Montana Fragfest: The short version is: Montana Fragfest is Montana's local connection to the lighter-side of video games. The long version is: Montana Fragfest is Montana's local connection to the - [Build a Better Blog in 31 Days](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/04/build-a-better-blog-in-31-days/) - For some fun professional development I've signed myself up for the Problogger "Build a Better Blog in 31 Days". I've decided the blog that I would like to make better is Montana Fragfest, and I'll be posting the work I do for the project here. If you aren't interested sorry for the spam in the - [Time To Grow Up, Mr. Robbins](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/03/time-to-grow-up-mr-robbins/) - While I'm very happy with who I am, I've decided that it is time to GROW UP! The older I get the more I realize that I need to take care of myself. So how will I better myself? Through the power of the internet, that's how! I love the idea of personal accountability, so - [Welcome to the new JadeRobbins.com](https://jaderobbins.com/2009/01/hello-world/) - Welcome! I hope that in the future this can be filled with information about myself, my projects, and general ideas that will be popping into my head. If you are a previous subscriber of the blogs of JadeRobbins.com welcome and congratulations on making it here! ## Pages - [](https://jaderobbins.com/) - Jade Robbins is a technology enthusiast who loves business, software development, product management, and IT/systems administration from Lewistown, Montana. - [PM Tools](https://jaderobbins.com/pm-tools/) - These are various tools for Product Managers (and Product Teams) in general that I've collected over the years. Often they are recreations or refinements of things seen in the field, I try to give as much credit/attribution as possible. Templates Delta-Next Template - The Delta Next Template helps focus and gather feedback from customer calls - [Presentations](https://jaderobbins.com/presentations/) - May 19th, 2011 - MSU Unix Users Group talk on Git - [Projects](https://jaderobbins.com/projects/) - Past Projects UPS-PHP UPS-PHP is an open source project focusing on creating an easy to use framework for interacting with UPS's API in PHP. I was a developer and consultant to the project. AgileTask Dead Simple Task Tracking. This project is a collaboration between Rob Lund, Mark Sanborn, and myself. Faceoff Faceoff is a technology - [2011-05-19 Git Talk](https://jaderobbins.com/presentations/2011-05-19-git/) - Slides View Slides Resources Git Home Page Community Git Book - Section 3: Basic Usage is particularly useful Hg Init - Beginner's introduction to Mercurial. This has a great explaination of distributed SCM and how it's different than centralized/Subversion Github - The world's most popular "Remote" Jordan Schatz's Presentation Notes ## Categories - [Daily Life](https://jaderobbins.com/category/daily-life/) - [Management](https://jaderobbins.com/category/management/) - [Meetings](https://jaderobbins.com/category/management/meetings/) - [Tips and Tricks](https://jaderobbins.com/category/tips-and-tricks/) - [Apps](https://jaderobbins.com/category/apps/) - [Product Management](https://jaderobbins.com/category/product-management/) ## Tags - [hello](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/hello/) - [jade](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/jade/) - [jade robbins](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/jade-robbins/) - [welcome](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/welcome/) - [laptops](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/laptops/) - [drobo](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/drobo/) - [Mark](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/mark/) - [problogger](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/problogger/) - [professional development](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/professional-development/) - [31dbbb](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/31dbbb/) - [elevator pitch](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/elevator-pitch/) - [Montana Fragfest](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/montana-fragfest/) - [List Post](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/list-post/) - [31dbbbb](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/31dbbbb/) - [duplicity](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/duplicity/) - [backup](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/backup/) - [mxl 990](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/mxl-990/) - [faceoff](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/faceoff/) - [load time](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/load-time/) - [chicklets](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/chicklets/) - [api](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/api/) - [netbook](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/netbook/) - [google](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/google/) - [gmail](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/gmail/) - [gtd](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/gtd/) - [action needed](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/action-needed/) - [waiting for reply](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/waiting-for-reply/) - [email](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/email/) - [agiletask](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/agiletask-2/) - [agile](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/agile/) - [rob](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/rob/) - [restful](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/restful/) - [ubuntu](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/ubuntu/) - [gnome](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/gnome/) - [Meetings](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/meetings/) - [workshop](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/workshop/) - [meditation](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/meditation/) - [visualization](https://jaderobbins.com/tag/visualization/)