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
Articles and posts about product management, the practise, the art, and the reality of the role. Useful tips and guidelines
Product Management
An old Friend - Jira
The Dude thought he had gotten away from being a Jira monkey. How wrong he was.
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Consultants
Consultants provide valuable business expertise for hire. Just be clear why you are hiring them, and pay attention to their findings.
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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
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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.
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Purposeful Opacity
A business runs on data, data about orders, about customers, about who, what and where people are buying. But it is all to easy to gum up the works, albeit intentionally, or accidentally
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The Case of Parler
Parler, the conservative version of Twitter, offers an interesting study for product management. Bear with the Dude on this long read
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Problem Space - where Product Management lives
Product management is a problem space discipline. So why does the Dude see lots of job reqs for PdM's that read like solutions space?
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Toxicity - Work ethic
Workplace Toxicity - Self inflicted overwork to get a promotion is not how it works, and if you do this, you have no one to blame when you burnout.
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What a Product Manager should focus on
Ever been in a product management role that had a terrible leader? How about a great leader? What is the differentiator? Read on
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Sales… 'nuff said
Sales, especially in B2B, works their funnel, but often fails to truly grasp the customer's real need. This is why Product Management needs to help guide sales at times, and instill discipline
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Stretch Projects
A peer leans into a stretch project, the Dude is to "advise", but then the Dude does most of the work.