I’m diving deeper on the topic of fighting for curiosity in an upcoming webinar with Product-Led Alliance later this month (August ‘22). Have questions I should weave in? DM me. In the healthiest high performing product teams, curiosity is a compulsion. An intentional, relentless drive to learn that sparks action…

Building towards a culture of speed — At this very moment, somewhere in the world, there’s a presentation to leadership wrapping up: “Great update, team! Now, how can we get this done faster?” After the requisite back and forth about cutting scope and adding engineers, the team files out. …

This is loosely based on a blog post I wrote for Atlassian. I’m breaking up some of those ideas into a few smaller posts here. Check out part I: Cast the vision, build the version. Introduction to the blog series Confession: I’m a perfectionist. I’ve learned that for me, the biggest impediment to shipping value…

This is loosely based on a blog post I wrote for Atlassian. I’m breaking up some of those ideas into a few smaller posts here. Introduction to the blog series Confession: I’m a perfectionist. I’ve learned that for me, the biggest impediment to shipping value to users is the temptation to pursue the perfect product…

Go chat with your users — Note: This is a slightly edited re-post of an article I wrote for Atlassian. Here is my new favorite interview question for product managers: “How would you spend your first week on the job here?” Before we go on…Think for a moment. How would you answer that in an interview? …

Some tidbits I’ve picked up over the years — Note: This is a slightly edited re-post of an article I wrote for Atlassian. 1. Know and grow your lens. Product management is all about how you frame up problems and bring solutions into focus. …

What I learned by starting a company — In late 2013, I started a SaaS company with two other cofounders focused on selling desktop and mobile software to general contractors and remodelers. The three of us had worked together before and were all hungry to start something on our own. So we began looking for problems to solve…