July 21, 2013
The Alpha Engineer
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July 14, 2013
Help! — My Product Manager Lost His Mojo
Brief periods of misdirection and confusion have happened to me and every product manager I have managed or worked with. When it happens, it’s everyone’s responsibility to…
July 7, 2013
Why Do We Build Products That Suck?
Is your product unsatisfying to customers? Worse, do you hate working on it? It’s one thing for your customers who probably only need to tolerate it for less than an hour or so a…
June 30, 2013
Hey Engineers — Your Product Manager Needs a Hug
My engineering friends, please consider the following sentences as a heartfelt plea. I know that we are taught in business to focus on the rational and ignore the emotional, but…
June 23, 2013
Hey Product Managers — Stop Pissing Off The Engineers
So you are the product manager — CEO of your domain — and the go-to person for everything that matters. Your brain is evenly split between “blue sky” and “rat hole” and you know…
June 16, 2013
All I Needed to Know I Learned at a Startup
I wanted to pause to consider all that I am grateful for and what — if any — advice I could pass along to my kids. And I had a revelation. My most important life lessons over the…
June 3, 2013
The Holy "Scrum" War
One of our generally mild-mannered beta customers caught me by surprise recently when he said, “Scrum zealots are like vegans and barefoot runners who keep trying to convert me.”…
May 20, 2013
Great Beta Programs — A Contrarian View
If your goal is great customer feedback during beta, people actually need to use it, and that means they need to sacrifice to make the time. And people only sacrifice if what is…