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Toddzilla: Engineering Management
The journey of a giant reptile striving to give product management a good name. Strives to make the world a better place, occasionally goes on tangents of mass destruction. Made in Silicon Alley.
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Why Did You Want to Become a Product Manager?
Why Did You Want to Become a Product Manager?
If more Product Managers could answer this question, we’d have better Product Managers.
Todd Birchard
Mar 20, 2019
The Great Divide
The Great Divide
It’s been 9 months since I last called myself a product manager. Having faced my qualms with the profession as a whole, the transition to a…
Todd Birchard
May 17, 2018
Ideas Are Cheap
Ideas Are Cheap
An early wake up call in my career was learning the reality of who makes product decisions within companies. Foolishly, I believed that the…
Todd Birchard
Sep 24, 2017
The Arrogance Epidemic
The Arrogance Epidemic
Behind each of our unsavory characteristics lies a personal backstory. Our shortcomings are most certainly the direct result of a life…
Todd Birchard
Sep 19, 2017
Culture Over Rules
Culture Over Rules
Technology startups are often dominated by Caucasian males preaching the importance of culture. This irony should be lost on no one… in the…
Todd Birchard
Sep 14, 2017
Will Product Go The Way Of Marketing?
Will Product Go The Way Of Marketing?
I’m not too crazy about marketing people. It’s not that I dislike marketing as a concept… on the contrary, I have nothing but respect for…
Todd Birchard
Aug 26, 2017
Agile Suicide
Agile Suicide
Here’s something that doesn’t occur often in project management blogs: exploring the potential pitfalls of Agile.
Todd Birchard
Aug 15, 2017
The Holy Scripture of Documentation
The Holy Scripture of Documentation
Product managers love their jobs. There’s nothing like powering through with a team of brilliant minds, through good times and bad, to come…
Todd Birchard
Jun 29, 2017
The Ruin of Feeling Powerless
The Ruin of Feeling Powerless
I woke up one August morning to find a letter waiting on my dining room table. The only words were “I love you. I believe.”
Todd Birchard
Jun 26, 2017
How To Hire a Product Manager
How To Hire a Product Manager
From the perspective of a Product Manager, it’s amazing how different PM interviews can be between organizations.
Todd Birchard
Jun 18, 2017
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