The Dead Horse Theory of *BAD* Product Management

The — truly — sad part is that I’ve seen pretty much all of these applied at some point or the other.

It is actually particularly prevalent in small/lean/agile/rapidly-growing companies who bring in “professional management” to “take them to the next level” (scare quotes intentional).

You see — in enterprises the above “professionals” tend to act as checks&balances on each other, cancelling out their own worst impulses. However, when they are provided the unfettered power of a small company, well, all bets are off. Oh, they might do good, but more likely, you end up with some significant subset of the above stupidity…

(This article also appears on my blog)