Brooke Ballhaus: Week 1 PSP: Three Ways to Organize a Company October 7, 2026 Spotify’s model stresses culture and networks. Squads (scrum-like teams owning a “long-term mission” from design to production) are grouped into tribes (squads in a… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 3: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 7, 2026 Coinbase How does it show the problem? The deck starts by selling bitcoin as fast, global money with no fees (Slides 2 and 3)…. Continue Reading
Brooke Ballhaus: Week 2 PSP: Three Ways Into a Market October 7, 2026 Jira resegmented the bug tracker market by being a cheaper, low-end product with no sales team. Bugzilla and other bug trackers made this a… Continue Reading
PSP2: Whose Frustration Do You Solve? October 6, 2026 I’ve tried Jira a little. It felt like a cockpit when I needed a bike, and concepts like epics and backlogs seemed unnecessarily confusing…. Continue Reading
Brooke Ballhaus: Week 1 Milestone – Cold Interviews October 6, 2026 Interviewee 1 Company: n8n · Date: 10/02/26 · Recorded? Y (Zoom, permission given at start) 1. Company Notes: n8n, workflow automation company. Historically used… Continue Reading
Week 2 PSP: Three Ways Into a Market October 6, 2026 Looking at Jira, Linear, and Productboard, I think they show three pretty different ways of entering a market. Jira entered an existing market. It… Continue Reading
Team 10 Week 2 Milestone: Round 2 Interviews + Patterns October 6, 2026 Team 10 (Geckos) Norms Direct communication, be transparent Tell the team early if you need help Air out your concerns early Be proactive about… Continue Reading
Week 2 PSP: Three Ways Into a Market October 6, 2026 Jira: Jira is considered widely adopted across enterprises and provides a very customization-heavy approach to tools for PMs. Overall, Jira’s belief on PMs centered… Continue Reading
Week 2 Milestone: Round 2 Interviews + Patterns October 6, 2026 Interview Transcript: Link New Questions Deciding what not to build He finds scoping features and finding the ROI sweet spot the hardest part… Continue Reading
