Leading Product Edition 10

We made it! 10 is a nice number. Thanks for reading.

Happy Spring. For the tenth edition of Leading Product I present 10 product things. Curation is fun.

One

🤝🏿 This awesome thread about finding a director of product at Honeycomb, by Megan Gleason.

Megan Gleason @fishmegs

I’m hiring again at Honeycomb and this time I’m on the hunt for a director of product. This is a role I did for a number of years myself before becoming VP, so as you can imagine, I have THOUGHTS. 1/8

jobs.lever.coHoneycomb - Director of Product ManagementHoneycomb is built to help engineering teams deeply explore and understand their own production systems — in real time. It’s a service for the near future and present, where distributed systems are the new default, every service is a platform, and empowered generalist software engineers are the new…

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Two

🌟 This back and forth thread on finding the North Star.

Jason Knight 💔🇺🇦 @onejasonknight

#prodmgmt pop quiz! You have an API product providing data to your customers. They do "stuff" with that data but you don't get to see what happens for the ultimate end user. Leadership's only benchmark is revenue. What's your north star metric?

And Ibrahim Bashir’s take:

Product Onions

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Three

🆘 Helping with meaning.

Mekka 💉💉💉🎉 *My Mask Protects You* Okereke @mekkaokereke

💯 This thread is a great read for anyone in tech that wants to "Help Ukraine" or "Help refugees." Two things that work better than what happened: 1) Find the experts. Send cash. 2) Find the experts. Talk to them. Contribute only the tech that they ask for / actually need.

Bill Fitzgerald (he/him) @funnymonkey

Okay - I've been ruminating/stewing on this all morning. The site that the two Harvard kids put together in three days is a human trafficker's dream. It's dangerous. Good intentions don't justify exposing refugees to increased risk of exploitation. Thread.

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Four

🧩 John Cutler’s three product strategy puzzles post on LinkedIn.

Source

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Five

💰 How do products happen, and get funded? Check out Chapter 3 of The Turning Point: A Novel About Agile Architects Building a Digital Foundation by Stephanie Ramsay, Kees van den Brink, and Sylvain Marie (The Open Group Press).

N.B. Rather than confine teams to rigid ways of working, standards unlock agility. 🤔

Source

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Six

💸 Selling Nextsale - Indiehackers. Martech. Nicely done.

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Seven

😂 This billboard ad campaign from odoo. You know immediately who it’s for. It caught my eye the other day in Toronto.

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Eight

🤯 Sharing with everyone 4 mindmaps of key takeaways from “The Epic Guide to Agile” Came across this a while ago via HackerNews, a great amount of effort for something super practical.

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Nine

🔮 How to Future-Proof Your Product Management Skills - Gartner

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Ten

🧵 This thread about understanding an organization’s product bearing, by Shreyes Doshi. BTW I’ve always taken issue with the term “product-led” - doesn’t / shouldn’t that just mean customer-led…?

Shreyas Doshi @shreyas

A company / org / team’s power dynamics, specifically the default influence of Product Management, provides the foundation for how PMs & PM leaders can work effectively with other functions (Design / Eng / Analytics / Sales / etc.) A thread & framework to better understand this:

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Bonus

Data Mesh From an Engineering Perspective

An excellent scroll if you work with data intensive applications, or run data-as-a-service product(s).

The data as a product principle projects a product thinking philosophy onto analytical data. This principle means that there are consumers for the data beyond the domain. The domain team is responsible for satisfying the needs of other domains by providing high-quality data. Basically, domain data should be treated as any other public API.

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Fin

Thanks for reading and getting this thing to ten.