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Domain expertise in Product Management (Nov 16)

When you're hiring software product managers, hire for product management skills. Looking for domain experts will reduce the pool of people you can hire and might just be worse for your product.

Strategy Means Saying No (Oct 27)

An oft-overlooked aspect of strategy is to define what you are not doing. There are lots of adjacent problems you can attack. Strategy means defining which ones you will ignore.

Understanding vision, strategy, and execution (Oct 24)

Vision is what you're trying to do. Strategy is broad strokes on how you'll get there. Execution is the tasks you complete to complete the strategy.

How to advance your Product Market Fit KPI (Oct 21)

Finding the gaps in your product that will unlock the next round of growth.

Developer Relations as Developer Success (Oct 19)

Outreach, marketing, and developer evangelism are a part of Developer Relations. But the companies that are most successful with developers spend most of their time on something else.

Developer Experience Principle 6: Easy to Maintain (Oct 17)

Keeping your product Easy to Maintain will improve the lives of your team and your customers. It will help keep your docs up to date. Your SDKs and APIs will be released in sync. Your tooling and overall experience will shine.

Developer Experience Principle 5: Easy to Trust (Oct 9)

A developer building part of their business on your product needs to believe that you're going to do the right thing for them and their customers.

Developer Experience Principle 4: Easy to Get Help (Oct 8)

The faster you can unblock a stuck developer, the better their experience will be.

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What I'm Reading

• Are you a seal? — Benedict Evans
• Product Leadership Is Hard | Silicon Valley Product Group
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• For Distributed Agile Teams, It’s Not All about the Tools - Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
• Creating a thriving API ecosystem starting with the API experience
• Free Your Product Roadmap and Ditch the Timeline - Mind the Product
• A Pipeline Made of Airbags
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
• Anna Shipman : JFDI
• Pickled Punk by Chris Minnick
• Four steps to identifying your new role
• Engineering Management: An Interview with Rich Archbold
• 22 Principles for Great Product Managers
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
• All the Devils (Livia Lone #3) by Barry Eisler
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier