Erin C Cummins – Medium

Erin C Cummins

my summer of croissants

In April of this year I decided to give myself the summer off because I was feeling stressed out, wasn’t sure if my job in product…

7 min readAug 19, 2022

--

eight golden brown croissants on two baking sheets

--

Erin C Cummins

The Live-Music-Shaped Hole In Our Pandemic Lives

Waiting in front of Mayer’s Tavern, I heard a familiar guitar strum, the refrain “faaaaaaade into you.”

2 min readAug 2, 2020

--

Mayer’s Tavern, Cape May, NJ

--

Erin C Cummins

5 Qualities You Need in an Agile Product Manager

Hiring tips for finding the product manager who can run your startup’s development sprints.

3 min readMar 27, 2019

--

5 Qualities You Need in an Agile Product Manager

--

Erin C Cummins

Protecting Your Team from Uncertainty

Protect your team from the uncertainty that can come from wayward requests, feedback and rumors.

3 min readMar 20, 2019

--

Protecting Your Team from Uncertainty

--

Erin C Cummins

4 Quick Ways to Make Time For Product Management

One of my greatest challenges as a product manager of a startup has always been making time to do the actual product management work. The…

4 min readMar 13, 2019

--

4 Quick Ways to Make Time For Product Management

--

Erin C Cummins

Think You’re Ready To Hire? Try These 5 Process Improvements First

Getting more out of the team you have, and making them happier, too.

5 min readMar 5, 2019

--

Think You’re Ready To Hire? Try These 5 Process Improvements First

--

Erin C Cummins

5 Tips for Product Managers Who Do It All

While not all Product Managers enjoy handling the project management of their team’s software development, I believe this structure has…

4 min readFeb 26, 2019

--

5 Tips for Product Managers Who Do It All

--

Erin C Cummins

10 Signs Your Team Is Ready For a Product Manager

As the founder, you’ve been doing fine directing your designers and engineers on your own so far. You’ve all been collaborating really…

3 min readFeb 19, 2019

--

10 Signs Your Team Is Ready For a Product Manager

--

Erin C Cummins

Product management: Time blocking for your sanity

Recently, a Reddit post on Mental health as Product Managers inspired me to write about what I do to feel in control in a busy, fragmented…

4 min readSep 10, 2018

--

1

Product management: Time blocking for your sanity

--

1

Erin C Cummins

MVP Your Morning Routine

Apply Agile to your morning to make time for the most important stuff.

5 min readJun 28, 2017

--

MVP Your Morning Routine

--

Erin C Cummins

Erin C Cummins

Product management consultant, helping founders get ideas built. Lover of efficiency, dogs, bikes, plants, cooking, nachos and feminism.

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams