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Harry Bailey

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Agency (creative/digital) ways of working and project delivery thoughts. Crafter of trusted tactics. Ex-Agency Founder | Dad | Mancunian 🐝 Tactical Delivery Habits: harrybailey.com/framework/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/harrybailey

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Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · Mar 29

Hi new peeps, 👋🏻 I’m Harry Bailey.

I solve tricky client project delivery challenges with agencies teams.

Ensuring successful, profitable projects and stronger client relationships.

Questions? DM me! Or learn more on harrybailey.com #ClientSuccess #AgencyLife #ProjectManagement

Harry Bailey - Agency Project Delivery Expert

Two decades of experience. Harry helps agencies de-risk project delivery. Client alignment, scope creep & overruns. Find out more...

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Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 2h

Some brief thoughts on creative and digital agency stand-ups.

> What if stand-ups were about planning instead of reporting?

harrybailey.com/2025/10/thou...

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 7h

Lots of detailed inline commenting leading to inline recommendations, then review, fix, commit.

I guess the natural next step there is to move from comments to tests.

Reposted by Harry Bailey

Amy Mitchell @amycmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Risks circle back. Decisions move forward.

The small shift that made product work calmer (and faster):
Stop Logging Risks. Start Driving Decisions.

Stop Logging Risks. Start Driving Decisions.

The tool that helps product managers escape endless alignment battles

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 1d

I’m not impressed by an app very often, but honestly the Merlin Bird ID app is amazing.

Uses your phone microphone to hear and flash up info for birds nearby.

It’s free. It’s works really well. It keeps children entertained in a similar way to Pokémon catching.

Highly recommended.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 1d

Last week the UK Institute for Public Policy Research said one in three workers has skipped work in the past year because of a hangover.

One in three!

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 1d

Knew you could do it Fritz. Congrats. Keep pushing the envelope. 🚀

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 1d

I’ve always wondered why you can’t order to your table in Costa.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 1d

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Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 1d

TIL your ear hears differently.

The brain processes sounds from each ear in slightly different ways.

The right ear is often better at picking up speech and rhythm, while the left is more attuned to music and tone.

A small reflection of the way a brain’s hemispheres specialise.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 2d

Wait until they hear about rotary dial phones. I still have flashbacks to using one to get through to a busy number.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 2d

This is my trick for keeping on top of my emails.
I have a placeholder that I try to clear above most weekdays.
I don't achieve it every day, but it's a marker to aim for.

Clear to here daily. This emails should be top before the end of each day. To get here you can action things above, reschedule, or covert to actions.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 2d

an elderly woman is dancing in front of a brick wall and a trash can .

Alt: an elderly woman is doing the floss

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Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 2d

Is the second scoop for when you break the first scoop?

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 2d

Looks fine, carry on.

Close up of dodgy looking part of digger.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 2d

Death by a thousand paper cuts.

One day it’s the same message via 5 channels, the next it’s sent via one but missing key details.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 2d

As a family, we may have reached the point of sock-pairs bankruptcy.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 3d

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Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 3d

Chrome browser has a new 'read page aloud' features.

So naturally I tested it on the welcome page which highlights this new feature.

It announced: "Have Chrome red pages aloud".

Red, not read. Hoisted with it's own petard.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 3d

Where juniors are a superpower

When a team’s ways of working actively support the inclusion of its least experienced members, everyone benefits.

agency-tactics.ghost.io/where-junior...

Where juniors are a superpower

When a team’s ways of working actively support the inclusion of its least experienced members, everyone benefits. Open teams — teams that work in ways that let even the least experienced members ...

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Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 5d

“It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 6d

I enjoyed (it's 45 mins though) listening to this. An interesting take on it all... "Will Reform win the next general election" - Gary Stevenson. Lots of talk of parties throwing it away, and potential for the Greens.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcu0...

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 6d

Have you ever considered your own podcast, dedicated to accents, light entertainment, whippets and chocolate covered northern snacks?

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 6d

This this is awesome, but it must knock a block over occassionally surely? What's the emergency procedure?

crkⓋ @crk5.layer8.space.ap.brid.gy · 7d

The lane zipper on the Golden Gate Bridge..

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 7d

I have a new most-hated website. It combined inclear UI with flaky session management and endless navigation loops to really push buttons.

I give you ...

lg.com 🎉 🥇 🏆

Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com · 7d

I asked for the source of the quote.

> Oh, well, it looks like they never really said that, but it looks good based on all the other evidence right?

It did. It had built a case and then put the icing on the cake with a fake quote.