Tech & Product Management

🐾 Pattern, 💡 Realization, 😺 Meme, 🔭 Tool, 📚 Article/Book

Legend: 🐾 Pattern, 💡 Realization, 😺 Meme, 🔭 Tool, 📚 Article/Book

💡 Your product's raison d’être is to turn its user into a superhero.

🐾 Avoid writing software wherever possible. It's tantalizing for the entire organization, distracting, expensive, hard to maintain and harder to change. - myself

📚 Managers' schedules vs. makers' schedules and the cost of meetings: Brilliant article by Paul Graham.

💡Outsourcing companies / agencies have a "The client is always right" mindset, while product companies need teams that own the product and fight over it.

🐾 Rubber duck debugging: Explain a problem to a hypothetical rubber duck to structure your own thoughts and come to a much better understanding or find solutions. - The Pragmatic Programmer

💡 A reason to distinguish between the terms "developer" and "engineer" is to point out that the goal of an engineer is not to write code but to solve a problem, ideally with as little code as possible. - Renn Vara

💡 For some years, I have been successfully using the following rule of thumb for scheduling a software task: 33% planning, 16% coding, 25% component test and early system test, 25% system test, all components in hand. - Fred Brooks, the Mythical Man-Month

Product Discovery & Requirements Engineering

🐾 MVP thinking: Question all assumptions about customer need - unknown

🐾 Value management: Challenge safe assumptions regularly, don't wait for external triggers. Things are easily overlooked - Alexander

📚 How to scale a magical experience. Reid Hoffmann interviews Airbnb's Brian Chesky who shares inspiring approaches to discovering, building and scaling truly customer-centric experiences.