What has captured my attention lately is the slow moving crapshow that is Twitter, the chaos of the FTX debacle, and now, the failure of SVB. Some…
It seems like the "standard" is now a two week sprint for Agile, making me wonder why. Some thoughts...

February 2023

There was a time when long time employees could expect to have a sabbatical, time to work on personal projects, or to just take a break. It would be…

January 2023

Product Management is a consuming profession, if you don't set boundaries and protect your diary, you are gonna have a bad time.

December 2022

A long history in product management has taught me to get a handle on what success looks like. That way, you know going in what to expect, and how to…

November 2022

The hits just keep on coming. It seems like Elon Musk is trying to pour liquid oxygen on the $44B he is burning on his purchase of Twitter.
Once, a GM I worked for mused why our development team couldn't be more like a startup. I think Twitter will put that to rest forever
I hear stories of people who are struggling to get that first product management role but I can explain a bit why this is so
The saga of, and distressingly rapid degradation of Twitter, and my thoughts. I will forgive you if you don't read this.
Planned sessions with real people give rise to how important the ability to ask probing questions, and to extract maximum value from your face time…

October 2022

At times, it seems that nobody learned from the dot-com crash of the early aughts. Startups and VC's are in for a funding winter me thinks, and that…
There are many analogies twixt product management and a sports team, but also some important distinctions. Don't overreach on successes, absorb the pain…