Ainsley Bourque Olson's guest appearances

Ainsley Bourque Olson

The Omni Show

Daniel Jalkut

Kourosh Dini

David Sparks

Tim Stringer

Joe Buhlig

John Gruber

Tim Wood

Jake Bernstein

Dave Budge

Ken Case

Naomi Pearce

Cindy Cohn

Liz Marley

Meg Edwards

Sam Newman

OwlTail

Andrew Abernathy

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com How do you improve on a Gantt chart?  What’s the Outline View all about?  Is there a delta between customers' wants and needs?  How about universal purchases?  Today on the Omni Show, we answer these questions and more with an exclusive peek behind the curtain of OmniPlan 4’s development process. Ainsley Bourque Olson (Product Manager) &amp; Andrew Abernathy (User Experience Designer) share details of the dance that is developing product experiences along with our customers. Join Andrew, Ainsley, and Andrew as they chat about the design process, which results in the perfect UX fit for even the pickiest project managers. You can find Ainsley @ainslaw on Twitter. Some other people, places, and things mentioned:  Product Management Apple Project Management OmniGraffle OmniFocus Getting Things Done (GTD) Gantt Chart Network diagram Project Levelling WebDAV

Full transcript and show notes at <a href="https://theomnishow.omnigroup.com/episode/designing-omniplan-4-with-andrew-abernathy-ainsley-bourque-olson/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">theomnishow.omnigroup.com</a> How do you improve on a Gantt chart?  What’s the Outline View all about?  Is there a delta between customers' wants and needs?  How about universal purchases? Today on the Omni Show, we answer these questions and more with an exclusive peek behind the curtain of <a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/omniplan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmniPlan 4</a>’s development process. Ainsley Bourque Olson (Product Manager) &amp; Andrew Abernathy (User Experience Designer) share details of the dance that is developing product experiences along with our customers. Join Andrew, Ainsley, and Andrew as they chat about the design process, which results in the perfect UX fit for even the pickiest project managers. You can find Ainsley <a href="https://twitter.com/ainslaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ainslaw</a> on Twitter. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_management" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Product Management</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.apple.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Project Management</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmniGraffle</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmniFocus</a></li> <li><a href="https://gettingthingsdone.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Getting Things Done (GTD)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gantt Chart</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Network diagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_leveling" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Project Levelling</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WebDAV</a></li></ul>

Designing OmniPlan 4 with Andrew Abernathy & Ainsley Bourque Olson

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Ainsley Bourque Olson — knitter, cat person, OmniPlan planner — joins the show to talk about being the product manager of a project management app. And about how to go from Apple retail to world domination. And about how to get by in Norwegian Ballard.  You can find Ainsley @ainslaw on Twitter and on Instagram. Some other people, places, and things mentioned:  Canada Product Management WWDC Apple Ken Case Project Management OmniGraffle OmniFocus Getting Things Done (GTD) Gantt Chart Waterfall management Network diagram Project Levelling Las Vegas Monte Carlo simulation Microsoft Project Windows UW Continuing Education Program Omni internal tools OmniPresence OmniDiskSweeper WebDAV Nova Scotia University of Washington Bondi blue iMac Family tree diagram Political Science Apple Store University Village Pages Numbers Aaron Cherof Pneumonia King of Norway Syttende Mai Parade in Ballard Knitting Ballard’s Brewery District Stoup Cats Derek Motonaga Linus and Lucy

Full transcript and show notes at <a href="https://theomnishow.omnigroup.com/episode/ainsley-bourque-olson-omniplan-pm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">theomnishow.omnigroup.com</a> Ainsley Bourque Olson — knitter, cat person, <a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/omniplan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmniPlan</a> planner — joins the show to talk about being the product manager of a project management app. And about how to go from Apple retail to world domination. And about how to get by in <a href="http://ballardhistory.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norwegian Ballard</a>. You can find Ainsley <a href="https://twitter.com/ainslaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ainslaw</a> on Twitter and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ainslaw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on Instagram</a>. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_management" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Product Management</a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WWDC</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.apple.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple</a></li> <li><a href="https://theomnishow.omnigroup.com/episode/ken-case-on-omnis-2018-roadmap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ken Case</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Project Management</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmniGraffle</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmniFocus</a></li> <li><a href="https://gettingthingsdone.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Getting Things Done (GTD)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gantt Chart</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Waterfall management</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Network diagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_leveling" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Project Levelling</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Las Vegas</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monte Carlo simulation</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft Project</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Windows</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.pce.uw.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UW Continuing Education Program</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.objc.io/issues/22-scale/omni-group/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Omni internal tools</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/omnipresence/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmniPresence</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmniDiskSweeper</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WebDAV</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.novascotia.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nova Scotia</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.washington.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Washington</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bondi blue iMac</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Family tree diagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/political-science" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Political Science</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.apple.com/retail/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Store</a></li> <li><a href="https://uvillage.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University Village</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.apple.com/pages/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pages</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.apple.com/numbers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="https://cherof.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aaron Cherof</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.webmd.com/lung/tc/pneumonia-topic-overview#1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pneumonia</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Norwegian_monarchs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">King of Norway</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.17thofmay.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Syttende Mai Parade in Ballard</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knitting</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.myballard.com/breweries/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ballard’s Brewery District</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stoupbrewing.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stoup</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cats</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dmosan.com/portfolio/mixed-media/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Derek Motonaga</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linus and Lucy</a></li></ul>

Ainsley Bourque Olson, OmniPlan PM