Essentials
Product Personas: The Starry Eyed Engineer
More engineers are making the transition to Product Management. What challenges do they face?
Jeffery Lebowski
Product Management
Colleagues - a Trying Tale
Colleague chaos. No matter how clear you make the instructions, how well defined the template, how crisp the ask, someone is gonna fuck it up
leadership
Split Leadership
A new Leader, a new (old) strategy, and a lot of churn, for what? To chase others, to try to beat them, but ineptness and past prejudices intrude
Product Management
Life as a Product Manager
Many people think product managers do all high-level business shit, but in reality, we spend a lot of time answering mundane questions
leadership
New Bosses
The Dude gets a new boss, and while his direct experience lacks, he is very coachable, and the Dude is helping him be successful
leadership
Bad Leadership, or, Is it time to leave?
It is like a broken record, where we are doomed to listen to the same grove over and over. New leader, shake things up, finds out that it ain't so simple, then doubles down and bad shit happens.
Product Management
An old Friend - Jira
The Dude thought he had gotten away from being a Jira monkey. How wrong he was.
Product Management
Consultants
Consultants provide valuable business expertise for hire. Just be clear why you are hiring them, and pay attention to their findings.
Product Management
The end is neigh - perhaps
The "Sharing" economy is anything but. That said, as more of the operators go public, the sticker shock to consumers will increase
lounge
The big Unga-Bunga
Hmmm, an unexpected promotion, turns out to be a gigantic negative. Death by Unga Bunga.
lounge
Sometimes, it works...
Some times the stars align, and a feature request just gets done. Time to buy a lottery ticket me thinks.
Product Management
It’s Happened Again…
Sales often wants to be the driver in choosing what is developed, but all too often, they bring duds to the table. That doesn't stop the duds from being built.