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  • Product Management cartoon suggests ignoring research and building what you're told

    Making Product Features to Order

    As product managers, what do we do about the demand for large language model features? The problem: our discipline has coalesced on a concept of creatively solving real customer needs. Our textbooks call out Build Traps, Jobs to Be Done, and even Empowered and Inspired Transformation. We prefer doing lean development in lockstep with real

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  • Help Net Security Observability video

    How Security Observability can help you fight cyber attacks

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  • Lone Star beer ad - it's a certified quality beer, now in glass cans.

    Certifications of Quality

    A certification is a third party statement that you know something about something. There’s positive and negative value to that. Certifications are relatively rare and powerless in the information technology sphere; compared to medicine or engineering. You won’t find a lot of self-taught pharmacists, but learning security engineering on the job with maybe some bootcamp

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  • Bored looking bartender asks, "what can i do for you, liquor or insurance?"

    Pick Your Poison

    In theory you “need” to pick between dependency hell or bloated monoliths, but in practice you don’t actually have to pick and so everyone uses a mixture of both and then complains about the problem set they’re feeling most acutely right now: Microservices Same goes for opinionated user experience versus highly configurable user experience. The

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  • anthropomorphic construction equipment (not to be confused with Hasbro Transformers) from the British kids show Bob the Builder, clustered around a container displaying the slogan "Can We Build It? Yes We Can!" Let's show some optimism kids, we can do anything given sufficient time and budget

    Why aren’t we doing better?

    As a software leader or middle management cat herder, one is often driven to attempt a process improvement. The things, they’re happening too slowly, or without enough quality, or the wrong people are doing them. And so we propose a new process or a new tool. Maybe a miracle happens and everyone thanks you for

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