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 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...
I guess I am back after all
What started as a test vehicle, and toying around, has become a rekindled passion. The Dude is back, writing biting snark about Product Management, and his observations. Buckle up!...
Travel Woes
Product Management means travel is needed at times. That requirement might be shrinking, but it will never be zero. Travel brings woes, and challenges....
Difference between an IC and a Manager (or leader)
The "up or out" mentality seems to be sticky, yet it can be damaging to the organization. Please, make it possible for satisfied long-term individual contributors to be properly rewarded....
2020 Iowa Dem Caucuses
The 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses provide a lesson for product done poorly. While I am unsure how it went wrong, I can extrapolate the why...