There are 2 views of PMs I’ve worked with. PM as initiator — PM figures out why, what, and who. Everything else is someone else’s problem. PM as quarterback — PM is responsible for success of product, measured by the product P&L. Responsible doesn’t mean the PM does everything, but they’re responsible for ensuring it…
Month: January 2026
Difficult employees should make you look at yourself, not the door.
A recent story about an engineer who got fired because she was “difficult” reminded me of another incident from my own distant past, when we were just building up the cloud services dev team by expanding a team who had worked primarily on local apps in the past. At the time, we had a mixed…
Leadership Doesn’t Abandon Team
I read a post recently which was supposedly about where Leadership should spend time. It embodied everything I think is wrong with corporate leadership today. TLDR, the claim was that if I, as a leader, are constantly managing under-performers, I’m not investing in the people who are actually driving the business forward. Leaders who find…
New Year, New Goals, New Strategy
2025 has been an interesting year for me. After a long time in essentially the same company, suddenly I’m loose in the wind. Traumatic as the change has been, it’s really pushed me to sharpen my sense of self, and that has value. I spent years scaling up at a professional level, starting from coding…