Premature optimization is the root of all evil
Premature optimization kills startups. Use this simple model to avoid this mistake.
Category: teams
Say accountability one more time
A true leader avoids accountability theater. Some strategies to develop intrinsic accountability in teams
Everything is signaling, manager edition
Executive Management User guides. Useful or just signalling?
Writing strategies for the beginner
Tips on getting started with writing. #1 Tip – Write for yourself
PM superpowers in these troubled times – coronavirus edition
How has coronavirus changed your product organization? Learn about what makes a great PM in this post COVID world
GM chronicles : A product guy learns about sales and marketing
So I’m a GM now :). Learning by writing is my thang so the next few posts will be about all things GM. Hopefully, fellow GMs and my core constituency of product folks will find this interesting and useful! The GM role in tech companies is a broad role that is accountable for a commercial […]
Ask good questions – dumb advice?
Always ask great questions – that’s the hallmark of a good leader – Every leadership coaching session If everybody asks questions – who’s got answers? – Me This post is a rant.
Platform rewrites, part Deux
The last post was about what to avoid, this post is about what you can do to make a migration successful. Sequencing is key With any large initiative, the natural impulse is to throw a lot of people at it. Avoid this impulse at all costs. At the beginning of the project, it is better […]
Platform rewrites, lessons learned
At some point in your product career, you will do a systems migration or a system rewrite. In this two-part series, let’s explore some lessons learned. This first post is about the things to avoid before starting a systems migration. The second post will walk through some practical tips for organizations on the most efficient […]
Great PMs deal with ambiguity
I’ve always been interested in figuring out what signifies greatness in PM, what makes a great PM? A source of signal for me has been the ability to deal with ambiguity. Great PMs have this innate ability to take ambiguous thoughts/ideas/strategies as input and come up with a coherent executable plan which then they execute […]