The Heretech

And yet it moves

As you might have heard already, Forrester analysts such as Yours Truly have been asked to move our external blogs in-house. I've already been cross-posting at the official Forrester blog for product managers and product marketers, so just point your browser there and voila! the conversation will continue. The Forrester blogs are organized by analyst and team, which means that you can read entries by an individual analyst like me, or by the entire team serving the product manager/product marketer role.

As for The Heretech podcast, I'll be reconstituting it eventually, but at this point, I have no idea how that process will work. While I figure out the right approach, the podcast will be on hiatus. For your convenience, I've re-posted the announcements for all 35 episodes, to make sure that they all appear in the feed, and by extension, in iTunes. 

What does this change mean for the content? Very little. You might not see as many in-jokes about Jansenism or the filioque clause, but I'll still be saying the same things about the technology industry, product management, product marketing, Agile, and social media. A heretic's a heretic, no matter where he lives.

If you're sick, stay at home

That's the life lesson that someone in San Francisco needed to learn, but never did. Instead, he sat behind me on Christmas Eve, coughing and sneezing and hacking until he spread his phlegm-filled season's greetings to everyone in the surrounding area.

Which was my introduction to this year's strain of the flu, which has kept me away from the blog and the podcast for the last couple of weeks. I'll be returning to regular programming this week.

The Heretech is taking the week off

I've had a massive amount of end-of-Q3 work to do, so the podcast is on hold until next week, when it will return to its regularly scheduled broadcasting schedule. I'll also pick up where I left off, blogging-wise, later this week.

Personal social media slowdown

I'm slammed with work at the beginning of this week, so I may be a day or so late in getting the podcast finished and posted. You may also not see me posting all that much posting on the blog or  Twitter this week. I'll definitely get some wiggle room by Thursday.

Blog and podcast update

Unfortunately, they're both delayed. I'll have a blog post later today, and the weekly podcast in a couple of days.

Why the Heretech?

The Forrester analysts in our group are establishing our own blogs, to supplement or complement what we do on the official Forrester blogs. (For example, here's Oliver Young's Strategic Heading blog.)

Therefore, you'll see a lot of the same discussions in both places, when it's appropriate for both The Heretech and the Forrester Technology Product Management blog. You'll also see things here that you won't see there.

As a bonus, I get to adopt a new identity as the Heretech, purveyor of heretical opinions about the technology industry. I'm building a bonfire of failed product plans even as we speak.