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Aug 1, 2021

Lesson 5: Working With Engineers

Lesson 5: Working With Engineers

One day my daughter was watching one of her annoying kid shows. This time it was Octonauts. This ridiculous cartoon was about a greedy whale louse that lived inside a benevolent sea sponge.

Jul 15, 2021

Lesson 4: Buzzwords

Lesson 4: Buzzwords

Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. No. That’s not the annoying sound of your alarm clock. It’s the even more annoying sound of technology buzzwords, constantly buzzing around your head… …actually, wrong again, that’

Jul 1, 2021

Lesson 3: Priorities

Lesson 3: Priorities

Isn’t it ironic that the chapter on priorities isn’t ordered at the top of the chapter list? Especially since I set this chapter to a ranking of “critical”. But obviously all

Jun 15, 2021

Lesson 2: CEO Of Your Product

Lesson 2: CEO Of Your Product

Someone once said that a Product Manager should act like the CEO of their product. Since then there has been an internal conflict within the Product community that could rival the civil war…

Jun 1, 2021

Lesson 1: It Ain't Easy

Lesson 1: It Ain't Easy

I wrote something. And isn't it ironic considering that the Agile manifesto has indoctrinated me to despise comprehensive documentation? “But,” I said out loud during an inspiring lunch at the Chic-Fil-A near my office, “What if the working product could be the actual documentation itself?”…