HOW I THINK AND WRITE ABOUT PRODUCT WORK
I write here to explore product thinking in real-world settings — lessons from Agile delivery, stakeholder alignment, and product decision-making.
These aren’t long reads — just focused insights, patterns, and reflections I’ve seen repeat across teams.
Topics usually include:
Product Discovery & Team Decision-Making
Real-World Agile, Not Just Frameworks
Career Growth, Self-Discovery & Wellbeing
These reflections build on my experience as a product owner. If you want to learn more about my approach, check out How I Work and Focus Areas
“Product manager” has become a junk drawer
One of my job filters is set on skills instead of the title. In the last few weeks it delivered a resume writer, an accountant with ERP experience, a QA engineer and a tutor — every one of them advertised as product management work. Four different jobs are hiding under one tired word, and the…
The job was closed. My application was still open.
The job post was archived, Active Proposals said 0, and the message thread still said “Awaiting offer from client.” All three were true at the same time. A product manager’s look at what happens when a system tracks two lifecycles and shows the user only one.
Five roles that look like product management — and where they differ
At one moment a business team has stopped filing product requests. They started going directly to one engineer, and a few days later they have working software. I read about a setup like this recently in a post a post by a fellow PM. The post described the situation in their organization from from the…
The commodity feature trap: everyone builds the tracker
Every category builds the tracker and stops. The commodity feature trap: why the decision layer stays empty, and why that is an ownership problem.
Product Case Study. Pre-registered Evaluation
Why You Can’t Test Your App on Friends For the last few weeks, one line kept stopping me from bidding on Upwork: “ proven experimentation-system ownership. Not marketing funnels — a real CRO track record, depth in GA4 or Mixpanel or Amplitude, evidence that you have built an experimentation system somebody else relied on.” I…
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