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Principles of Developer Experience: An Introduction (Sep 15)

You can create a great developer experience for everything you build. Introducing the six principles of developer experience.

The KPI that measures Product-Market Fit (Sep 9)

If you ask this question to a different small group of your users every week, you can measure trends over time to determine if you're moving toward product-market fit.

Don't use NPS to measure user happiness for enterprise software (Sep 7)

Measuring the satisfaction and enjoyment of end users is a key to unlocking product-led growth. Net Promoter Score is the wrong tool for this.

Ask One Question To Help You Reach Product-Market Fit (Sep 3)

Learn what adjacent problems you need to solve to become twice as valuable to your customers.

How to scale your product team from one product manager to an entire organization (Aug 25)

As your product management team scales, you'll have issues around redundancy, communication, and consistency. Here's now you might solve those.

Software engineering manager interview questions (Aug 6)

Here are some questions I like to use to get a sense of who an engineering manager is and how they work.

A framework for onboarding new employees (May 15)

There’s no single good way to onboard an employee that works for every role. Here's a framework for creating a process that you can adapt to each situation.

TV hosts as a guide for software managers (May 10)

Software managers can learn a lot from journalists or late night TV hosts and how they interview people.

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What I'm Reading

• Pickled Punk by Chris Minnick
• Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
• 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
• Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella
• The CEO of Automattic on Holding “Auditions” to Build a Strong Team
• New Employee Bootcamp | Silicon Valley Product Group
• Unlocking value with durable teams
• Why You Should Consider Eliminating the Title “Implementation Consultant” from Your Startup
• Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It by April Dunford
• Wartime Product Leadership
• Model, document and share.
• To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy
• 16 Questions for Selling in COVID-19
• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
• Testing with Humans: How to use experiments to drive faster, more informed decision making. by Giff Constable
• The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
• Walk the Wire (Amos Decker #6) by David Baldacci