Product Management

Product manager superpower: shipping fast. Product manager blind spot: assuming other products can ship fast without you. A lightweight structure in a shared folder with pre-filled templates keeps teams independent and coordinated. https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/product-managers-build-together

💯 > The future for product teams isn't about perfectly facilitating the same old agile ceremonies. It's about using intelligence, whether artificial or human, to create the conditions where great work happens naturally.

Establishing decision boundaries may be your most leveraged engineering leadership move. The cost of confusion around "who decides what" exceeds most technical debt. When engineers aren't sure whether they can make choices, they default to expensive waiting patterns or build contradictory so... See more

Gratitude isn't fluffy—it's your secret productivity multiplier. I've started each standup by recognizing one specific contribution: "Maya's database refactoring saved us 15 minutes on every build. That compounds to days over a quarter." Watch what happens: team members start noticing and vo... See more

A great framework for identifying pain points in workflows and team dynamics > Legacy pain stays invisible until someone writes it down. Recovery Check makes the leak visible, counts it, and links every repair to a simple measure. Teams gain a shared understanding, a ranked list, and proof the work matters.

The big truth people who think product strategy is like military strategy miss? Product success has nothing to do with “destroying” an opponent. And has everything to do with making a set of choices to compel desired user behavior changes. In ways that mean succe... See more

A wonderful article for UX researchers. (Shame the stack appears to be inactive these days 😞)