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    Product Management Internships

    An engineering internship program typically runs 6 to 12 weeks, often as a group exercise. Interns join scrums, 2-5 interns (generally 3), where there was a known deliverable on a topic of interest. They would experience the corporate version of their classes: understanding problems, sprinting to solutions, and presenting to the team on progress. Problems

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    Know everything, then automate!

    The concept of virtual patching has set me off on a small rant. If you’re not familiar, the concept is something like this: vulnerability scanners determine that PC42 in the CritStuff system has a nasty problem, but you can’t patch it for reasons. So instead, software magically figures out that exploiting this vulnerability requires access

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    Offering Multiple License Models

    I’ve written quite a bit about licensing software now, you can start here to follow the whole thread. In The Platform License Problem, I mentioned some free pricing as a hide-the-sausage technique. When there are multiple markets to find product fit for, and the vendor has a software base that tackles those markets, the platform

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    The Platform License Problem

    In my other three posts about licensing, I discussed simple products. But what about platform companies? A platform company sells two types of products: the platform, which enables everything else, and the use cases which rely on that platform to solve specific problems. The key to the platform company definition is that the solutions will not work

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    Scripts for Adulting

    I’ve found that writing little scripts like that really helped my kids with their adulting conversations as they went through high school and into college. My daughter was very upset about the class, but it wasn’t relevant to her major so there was no point in discussing how or why the bad grade was happening.

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