Making Our Principles Real

We’re now done with the easy bit: getting the first version of our principles out to the team. We’ve brushed our shoulders off, patted each other on the back and gotten universal nods of acceptance that these are 7 principles that people can get behind.

But they are abstract. Easy…

Part One: The Principles

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The Problem

Teachable has been on a wild growth spurt for the past couple of years. That’s obviously great when it comes to things like revenue, number of customers, and all that fun stuff.

But there are real challenges associated with…

I wrote on Twitter about my recent epiphany of how valuable it is at a senior level, to clear time and space for yourself to explore when changing roles in your career.

One thing I wanted to dive deeper with is evaluating your choices as you start getting further along…

Disclaimer: this post pertains mostly to the B2B realm. B2C PM’s might not find their work life represented below.

Let’s start with some honesty:

If you’ve never cursed sales to the lowest circles of hell for polluting your backlog with random ad hoc one-off tasks, I’d like to welcome you…

You can also find this story from my own blog: http://forssto.com/blog/careers/pros-and-cons-of-moving-to-product-from-engineering

I was a Software Engineer (and an Engineering Manager) for about the first 10 years of my career.

Then I got bit by the product bug (a topic for a later time), casting the second decade of my career…

In the world of managing products, sometimes you need to seek out features that no longer spark joy, thank them for their service, and then discard them.

There’s an ocean of amazing knowledge out there on how to become a rockstar Product Manager. You learn to empower cross-functional team, gather…

This is the last part of a three part series juxtaposing the growth process of a human from their teens to their 40s with the scaling process of a product from idea to a $100MM+ enterprise.

In the previous part of this series we looked at how adulting your way…

Lately, I’ve had the privilege of working with a whole host of companies that range from late startups just on the cusp of demonstrable product-market fit, all the way to multi-product portfolios about to break into true enterprise status.

Every company has their own challenges and opportunities based on their…