Tag: Professional Development


  • Two Patterns of Great Product People

    Over the past couple of years, I have had a few product people on my team, received coaching myself, and picked up a lot from conversations with other PMs, founders, and people who think deeply about building products. The contexts are always different. Different industries, team sizes, stages. But two patterns keep coming up with…

  • The Framework Trap

    When we started working on our products, especially our software, we had a pretty inexperienced team. Some of us had already worked on software projects at other companies or participated in research projects at universities or research institutions. The team’s most experienced member, in terms of years of professional experience, was a software engineer with…

  • Mastering New Hire Learning Curves

    When newcomers join the team, there are often significant differences in how quickly and how well they perform their assigned tasks. Basically, I have identified the following types, which I would like to link to learning curves: In the following, I would like to outline the possible reasons for the increasing returns pattern and what…