I'm reading, "Weeknotes 454" https://rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/weeknotes-454/ by @rogerswannell published 11 April 2025.
I'm reading, "Weeknotes 454" https://rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/weeknotes-454/ by @rogerswannell published 11 April 2025.
The pressures on tech workers to "democratize disciplines" and "become generalists" has enabled the rise template ronin - grifters peddling simple, quick, and cheap "solutions" that don't actually fix anything.
Together with their loyal AI squires, template ronin leave a trail of destruction for the rest of us to clean up.
In my latest issue, I go over how to fight back.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/attack-of-the-template-ronin
NEW! A Leanpub Podcast Interview with Nicolas Brown, Author of Real World Agility: Backed by evidence, built for results | Watch here: https://youtu.be/SV0T6ro-jUg #books #ebooks #Agile #ProductManagement #Leanpub #Leadership
Lizard Optimization: Unlock Product Growth by Engaging Long-Tail Users https://leanpub.com/lizardoptimization #books #ebooks #productmanagement
Just canceled a 7-day free trial of Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Surprisingly, I wasn’t asked why. No exit survey. No quick feedback form.
Missed opportunity to gather insights? Or are cancellations so frequent that Adobe doesn’t bother?
Four Rules for How Design Influences Technology, by @uxdesigncc:
Leanpub book LAUNCH Real World Agility: Backed by evidence, built for results by Nicolas Brown https://youtu.be/g7K-joUICFM #books #ebooks #Agile #ProductManagement #Leanpub #Leadership #EvidencedBased #SoftwareDevelopment
NEW! A Leanpub Podcast Interview with Nicolas Brown, Author of Real World Agility: Backed by evidence, built for results | Watch here: https://youtu.be/SV0T6ro-jUg #books #ebooks #Agile #ProductManagement #Leanpub #Leadership
"Build-measure-learn" - the premise of Big Tech development teams - is an ideology of waste. In reality it's "build, build, build" and all the stuff after that is an afterthought.
This week's issue covers UX designers who are finding ways to start with "learn" instead of starting with waste.
#UXDesign #UX #UserResearch #ProductManagement #softwaredevelopment
“WHAT Does a Product Manager Actually Do?”
This is my attempt to make sense of it all, if only for myself. Also, 1st in a series of 3 posts where I demonstrate how to 'organize information for understanding.'
https://stephenanderson.medium.com/what-does-a-product-manager-actually-do-bee1d853f420
Product Management in reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeNBsW0Slrk
In ancient times, the japes of fools and jesters were heeded as warnings from the gods. I have not spent this much time burnishing my jester credentials for nothing -- dashbots are coming and they will ruin everything. #UXDesign #UX #ProductManagement #LLM #AI #GenAI #B2B
https://spavel.medium.com/dashbots-the-inevitable-fusion-of-dashboards-and-chatbots-4de4a64d1f5f
Colorado Digital Services is hiring a Senior Product Manager
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado/jobs/4874956/senior-product-manager?1
"One of the things we did [wrong] was that we made research transactional. We made it, 'I'm going to pay you money . . . so that I can extract information from you'." - @jmspool #productmanagement #ux
Join me tomorrow (Tue) evening in my talk on "Probabilistic thinking in Product Management".
Probabilistic thinking is a core skill in digital business and Tech when it comes to decision making under uncertain conditions and with limited data.
Gazillion of prioritization frameworks won't do much (except damage) if we don't understand the underlying principles of decision making.
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/productpeople/events/306551830/
Giving - your time, expertise, compassion, energy - is its own reward. It feels good. Too often, we assume people need an extra incentive or external reward. #productmanagement
The topic: “Why Product Roadmaps Are Essential for Success" - Host Phil Hornby had me turn to what Mickey and I had written regarding roadmaps in our book, Managing the Unmanageable, in response to his concluding question.
The rest of the episode was a delightful conversation between the two of us about roadmaps that explored roadmap possibilities and opportunities. And delightfully edited! https://www.talkingroadmaps.com/episodes/should-you-have-an-engineering-roadmap
"Demos, not memos" is one of our mantras for #FWD50 2025.
On April 15, we're diving deep into Product Management for government, featuring alumni from #18F sharing what might have been.
Learn how product thinking yields incredible results in public service.
Register now: https://access.fwd50.com/feed
Can you recall any challenging Project, Software development initiative, or significant piece of work that encountered Intractable Problems or Elusive Opportunities?
- How did they manifest themselves?
- What impact did they have?
- How were they addressed or navigated?
#Management
#Leadership
#WaysOfWorking
#ProjectManagement
#ProductManagement
#Complexity
#Problems
#Opportunities
#ComplexityThinking
GET ME HIRED
Hi, #seattle friends in #productmanagement or whatever hashtag makes sense.
I'm looking for a job (like many Seattleites lately). I'm not asking for a contract or money or anything like that, but if you can squeeze me into an interview related to writing, reading, and leading software endeavors, please do!
All the PMy stuff, all the soft skills, and a bunch of hard ones, mostly around React/TS/JS/Node, security, cloud, cloud security, and even some Rust!
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