Week 2 PSP October 1, 2026 I believe Jira entered an existing market, a red ocean where Bugzilla was the incumbent, and succeeded by building a better tracker and selling… Continue Reading
Week 2 PSP: Three Ways Into a Market October 1, 2026 Jira entered the project management market very early on, and did not seem to have any direct precursors (project management tools that supported the… Continue Reading
Week 1 PSP: Three Ways to Organize a Company October 1, 2026 At Spotify, product development is organized into small cross-functional “squads” that are grouped into larger “tribes.” The PM sits in the squad and creates… Continue Reading
Week 1 PSP October 1, 2026 Spotify, Airbnb, and Zappos organize their product teams in vastly different ways. The people who decide what gets built are the product owner within… Continue Reading
Ethics: Ethical Jobs October 1, 2026 “I love this technology but I hate how the companies are making it” ~Wodtke Truly, the advances in AI are fascinating, and quite useful… Continue Reading
Ethics: Ethical Jobs October 1, 2026 Why I Wouldn’t Work at xAI I wouldn’t accept a job at xAI, even though I admire a lot of the technical ambition behind… Continue Reading
Ethics: Ethical Jobs September 30, 2026 I think I would accept a job at Meta, but it would depend a lot on the role and whether I felt I could… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 1: Three Ways to Organize a Company September 30, 2026 Spotify organizes teams in squads, which are small, fully autonomous groups with a certain focus. Squads with related tasks are associated with a tribe,… Continue Reading
Who Gets to Say No? September 30, 2026 At Spotify, each squad of six to twelve people owns one feature area, and its product owner sets the order of the squad’s work…. Continue Reading
