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Festina Lente
There’s been no lack of writing about development processes and engineering practices in software development shops (which arguably is everything now). The consensus of research and punditry stands firm: festina lente, or make haste, slowly. It’s like learning a complex riff on guitar: slow is smooth, smooth is accurate, accurate is fast. When care is…
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How To Fix Medium Sized Problems
We can’t do all the things at once. In fact, good product management requires painful prioritization: working on this now, working on that later if at all. Some of the rocks get dealt with now. Others have to be deferred. Product ideas are a relatively easy problem to prioritize, mostly. Customers want them, and if…
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Software Architecture Humble Bundle Review
Humble bundles are just a huge grab bag of roughly related stuff — which is tough to work with. They’re great for getting access to a bunch of stuff in order to find out what you’re interested in or get a quick overview of a field. Here’s short reviews of a bunch of books I…
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Default Alive or Default Dead
Lots of people are job-hunting these days. In conversations with friends about the companies they’re talking with, there’s a useful distinction to reflect on: Is the company default alive, or default dead? In other words, if everyone stopped writing new features, would the company immediately implode, or just sort of drift along? A default dead…
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Haas Product Con 2024 Review
This was a 300 person conference put on by the Product Management Club at UC Berkeley’s MBA program. About half students, half professionals (heavy on UCB alumni). I heard of it through Rands Leadership Slack but most people that I talked with heard about it through Lenny’s PM List. I did not attend the late…
