The week’s meals aren’t hard to plan. Any one week is trivially easy. Fifty-two of them, while tracking three people’s food preferences, a rotating set of things nobody wants to eat again yet, what’s already in the fridge, and whether…
Before I send Cowork a task that ends in a WordPress post, I do one thing first: I check that the WordPress MCP tool is listed in Cowork’s available tools. Every time. Not because the pipeline is fragile, but because…
I treat douli.com as a product. That means it has a backlog, planning cycles, and a pre-planning data ritual — the same discipline I apply to product work professionally, tested first on something small enough that I can move fast…
A dashboard is built around the questions someone already thought to ask. The charts, the date ranges, the segments — someone decided those in advance. That someone usually wasn’t in your last sprint planning meeting, and they almost certainly weren’t…
Acceptance criteria have one job: describe what changes. Not what stays the same. Not what was already working before the sprint started. In my previous role, I caught this mistake twice in a single story-writing session. The second time, I…
Senior stakeholders do not need real-time updates on normal release turbulence. They need to know about unplanned impact. Those are different things, and confusing them is expensive for everyone involved. In my previous role, I was the person deciding whether…
A fixed product requirement and an open design question look very similar on paper, until you are two days into a debate you did not intend to start. In my previous role, a single line in a requirement document turned…
Before I sign off on a feature going into sprint, I check one report. Not a dashboard overview. One specific view in Matomo that answers a question most sprint processes never ask: are the users I’m designing for actually the…
When a team discusses a change to a release date, the date has not changed. When they agree it should change, it still has not changed. It changes when the right person — the one who owns the consequences —…
Connecting analytics to an AI agent does not just save time. It changes how you think about decisions. I built a custom MCP server connecting my Matomo analytics — running on douli.com via the WP-Matomo WordPress plugin — directly to…
