Tag: Corporate Life
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Prioritizing Vulnerability Findings
Most shops are small. Small shops as a rule (there are exceptions!) do not dedicate resources to security, and that represents risks to big shops that depend on those small shops. Big shops don’t like risk, so we have compliance baselines. Big shops usually have lots of dedicated security people…
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Product Management Interview Help
An interview is inherently stressful for a lot of folks, particularly early in career. It’s a short window to talk with a person about changing companies, changing roles, returning to the workforce, starting a career. You might not seal the deal in a given interview, but you can certainly close…
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The Monthly Progress Meeting
Prioritizing hurts. It’s not just ordering a list, it’s picking the ideas that will live. But there’s a strange difference between doing it, and communicating it. Prioritize by yourself on a Saturday afternoon with a clear head. Communicate on Monday morning to questions and challenges from everyone involved. Then every…
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Where do Product Managers Come From?
Product management is a relatively recent discipline, young enough that the definition is still a bit shaky and we see occasional reactionary questions. (“What would you say you do here?” was directed at a PM after all.) When my PM career started the only formal training was Practical or SVPG;…
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Getting Stuff Done while Growing
One of the benefits of a long career across a variety of enterprise companies is that I have seen a variety of solutions to getting stuff done. This post will mainly be about operational cadence work and incident response. The related problems of developing new software solutions are a different…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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GTM is like SDLC
Craft construction and factory construction are different ways to achieve the same goal. If you want a table, you can craft one by selecting lumber and using a wide variety of carpentry skills to shape and sand and varnish a table. Or you can select an item from a table…
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Steering from the Engine Room
Let’s say you’re in disagreement with the leaders of your organization. It’s not unusual, especially for a product manager. You’re hired to be independent and creative, but only up to a point. And so a new owner comes in, or a new team, or a new priority… the business wants…
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