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Sales Lies Part II
Sales will lie, to justify what they want, they will stretch, bend, or completely snap the truth. Product Management can give them what they ask for, but they can't alter reality
Jeffery Lebowski
Product Management
Sales Lies Part 1 - Sales is Closest to the Customer
Sales will lie to you. They may not know they are lying, but they are. This episode is around the false belief that Sales is closest to the customer, so they know the market
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Troubled Business Models meet the Pandemic
Lyft and Uber already had a rocky path to profitability, the COVID-19 pandemic is more than a monkey wrench in those plans. Survival isn't assured.
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If Architects had to work like Programmers
What if you treated an Architect like you do your Software Developers. It might look something like this...
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Zoom Bomb…
The troubles Zoom is going through is food for Product Management thought. Many lessons to learn, and it can't all be blamed on viral growth
Product Management
Sales Threats
Sales often uses the blunt edge of a threat to get their way. Product Management would do well to weigh such threats against the real world
Product Management
Engineer to Order - a Primer
The Dude has long and deep experience with tech and the attendant business models that are employed, but it comes as a shock to himself when he was searching for something that he was sure he had already written on Engineer to Order businesses, he was further surprised that he
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Locked Down mode
Life in "shelter in place" isn't great, but the Dude is handling it. Lots of conference calls, web meetings, and other disruptions are the new normal
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Bullshit Interview Questions
Interviewing product managers is difficult. Applying the bad practices of SW engineer interviews will not improve this situation. Just stahp.
leadership
Spread thinner than the Tequila in a Chili's Margarita Machine
Want your product managers to be able to be more strategic? Then don't overload them, regardless of how much you need them to do more tactical tasks...
Essentials
If you want to flame out as a Product manager …
Product management is leading though influence, and fewer individuals within the organization can help or hinder us than executive admins. It behooves us to groom those relationships.
Product Management
Product Management Ethics
Reading about ethical lapses at major tech companies, the Dude wonders about product management's role in these lapses, and whether product management is abdicating their responsibilities