Week 2 Milestone: Round 2 Interviews + Patterns (Team 11) October 4, 2026 Shirley Zhang, Chenxi (Rita) Xiang, Alexis Tuchinda Team Norms We all agree to: Show up to planned meetings on time or say in advance… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 2: Three Ways Into a Market October 4, 2026 Jira, as an incumbent, is in an existing market playing in a red ocean. Jira had to believe that their product as the incumbent… Continue Reading
Week 2 PSP: Three Ways Into a Market October 3, 2026 There are three kinds of markets we explored in class: an existing market where many companies already compete, a resegmented market where companies target… Continue Reading
Week 2 PSP: Three Ways Into a Market October 3, 2026 Jira entered an existing bug-tracking market, a red ocean, and won on flexibility. Its bet was that teams would trade usability for configurability. The… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 2: Three Ways Into a Market October 3, 2026 Jira entered the existing market of bug-tracking tools for software developers in 2002. It was playing in a red ocean, competing with other bug… Continue Reading
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
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
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
