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Story Time: A Really Bad Situation
Starting a series of posts relating events and activities from a 25+ year Product Management career. First up, a shit-storm with a capital 'S'
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Starting a series of posts relating events and activities from a 25+ year Product Management career. First up, a shit-storm with a capital 'S'
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Techies, "engineers" and others deep into the tech stack often are myopic. Sometimes you need to call them out explicitly.
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A swan song.
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The RTO resistance is fueling a trend to more contract work in the upper echelons and formerly sacrosanct realms of Tech. The shift is not going to be pain free, but it might turn out OK.
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As I look back to my fleeting awareness of crypto, I remain glad that I trusted my instincts. Sadly, too many people have lost money they couldn't afford chasing the dragon.
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I have been blessed with a long career in product management, having seen many things, living through many transitions. I am glad I am not starting now.
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I have noticed an archetype of the people who are really upset about DEI (and "Woke"). Truth is, they out themselves quite blatantly
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Tools, compartmentalization, and process over knowledge is sweeping through product management. This is good, but also bad
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The rise of the position of Data Scientist to help wrangle the flood of data that modern businesses generate is a positive, but it only goes so far. The real value is to use the data constructively
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Using nudges to encourage desired behavior(s) is both good and bad. Reflections of the almost forced migration to the new Outlook and thoughts
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I get tired of hearing all the negativity and antipathy towards DEI, I have always tried to practice it when I was and am hiring people for Product Manager positions
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Be kind to your elders, they have truly "been there" and "done that". Odds are great that they have experienced just about any situation, and worked through it. And for that, they are invaluable.
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The endgame is here, and sadly a piece of my identity as a product manager has died. I mourn what was, and observe that the center of product management gravity had moved on long ago
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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 thoughts on the first of this triumvirate
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It seems like the "standard" is now a two week sprint for Agile, making me wonder why. Some thoughts...
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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 nice to come back into vogue