Author Archives: Anthony James

Comparing 5 LLMs to Review Long Documents: A Technical Writer’s Experiment

In this article, I compared 5 different LLMS to see which is best are reviewing long documents over 100 pages.

How to Write Better User Stories with Google NotebookLM

As a product manager, crafting clear and actionable user stories is critical for delivering value to your users. With AI tools such as Google NotebookLM, you can streamline this process, so that your stories are concise, user-focused, and align with your business goals. By leveraging AI, you can address the “Five Ws and H” (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How) more effectively, saving time and improving collaboration with your team.

Best Practices for Knowledge Workers Using NotebookLM

Overwhelmed with documents coming at you from all angles? Can’t find that one-liner in a recent email chain? Previously, I used a combination of tools, such as Obsidian, Notion, and Google Docs to get my arms around this. Recently, I’ve switched to NotebookLM and found it much better.

If you’re drowning in a sea of email chains, documents, meeting notes, and other fragments—maybe you work in IT, pharma, or any industry that thrives on information—I’d suggest you look at NotebookLM to coordinate all of this material into a single, coherent location.

From Chaos to Clarity: 15 Prompt Types to Enhance Your Productivity

From Chaos to Clarity: 15 Prompt Types to Enhance Your Productivity

If you take the time to articulate your intent (super specific), you invite the AI to engage thoughtfully, leading to outputs that are both relevant and often unexpected.
Because of this, when you’re learning to use AI, such as ChatGPT, you need to understand when and where to craft different types of prompts.

How to Decompose Atomic Requirements into Better User Stories

When coaching product managers, I help them identify complex requirements and decompose them into atomic requirements. That is, requirements which cannot be decomposed any further. As it’s not unusual for newly minted product managers to blend multiple requirements into a single user story, I’ll prepare a checklist which they can refer to when drafting their requirements.

If you work in an Agile or Scrum environment, you might find the ‘flexible’ nature of the sprint/epic/releases can undermine your project estimates. If that’s the case, consider using the following guidelines to identify atomic requirements, which you can then convert into easier to estimate user stories.

How to Export ChatGPT Responses to MS Word – Part 2

In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to export a ChatGPT conversion to MS Word. While this is fine in that it saves you time copy and pasting text, I’d like to show you how to improve this workflow. For example, how to save the last three responses with detailed formatting. I mention this […]