Reading Response #2: Artful Design Chapter 2 October 3, 2026 Jira: existing market, red ocean. Jira launched in 2002 as a bug tracker. Bugzilla and plenty of others were already doing that job, so… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 2: Three Ways Into a Market October 3, 2026 Jira, Linear, and Productboard all sell to PMs, but they entered the market differently. Jira is the tool most companies already use. When it… Continue Reading
Three Ways Into a Market October 2, 2026 Jira, Linear, and Productboard all entered the PM market differently. Although all three serve product teams, they made different bets about what PMs value… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 2: Three Ways Into a Market October 2, 2026 Looking briefly at these companies’ histories, each approached PMs’ needs differently. Jira launched in 2002 after Atlassian’s founders became frustrated with existing bug trackers…. 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
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
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
