Kassen Qian

You’re a router: Act as a traffic cop and bring the right info to the right people.

Basic structures cannot be composed into larger structures unless they themselves are internally consistent, and so the creation of software, just like any artifact of language, is naturally incremental.Software is a very verbose, very precise incantation of how an information system ought to behave.

In particular, not all software is a Web app ... We discount the volume of, for instance, embedded systems and one-off infrastructure.

A development paradigm that can be construed from the outside as setting great store by speed—or, I suppose, velocity—is invariably going to be under continuous political and economic pressure to accelerate.

Problem 2: The need for a central source of truth - A change in plans (whether it was a priority or a launch date) was impossible to coordinate across all of these documents.

Provides questions you can ask during a job search to sniff out strong product orgs.

1. The Role of Technology: in strong product companies, technology is not an expense, it is the business.