Product Operations: The Fuel for Winning Product Strategies

46.8% of product decision makers cite lack of quality data as the main challenge they make when making decisions and only 21.9% always or almost always use data to back...

The next CEO of Stack Overflow

We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Read more "The next CEO...

Distributed Logical Time

A simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, preserving the "happened-before" relation in almost all cases.

Startup School - A Conversation on Hard Tech

2025 Note - good convo with Adora for Startup School

Introducing the CPO Accelerator

I’m very excited to announce a new division of Produx Labs, specifically focused on growing future Chief Product Officers for growth stage companies.In late March of 2018, Shelley Perry of ...

Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money?

If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement with your investor that your aim is to…

Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams

New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"

Announcing Startup School Beijing

Strange and maddening rules

There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code...

A Dusting of Gamification

I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more...

Podcast: How to Think Like a Product Manager

I was very excited to be on Roadmunk's podcast talking about Product Institute and how we teach Product Managers to think. The key takeaway is: it's not a linear process....

Please Try.

“What have you tried to fix that problem?” Over the past year, I’ve spent most of my time working with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Leadership of companies going through...

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Stakeholders

When I first started in Product Management, I was told that my job was to keep my stakeholders happy. My stakeholders were members of the sales team. I understand that...

What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware

Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on Kickstarter in 2012. We went on to sell…

Dog Food-ing Our Way To V2 of Product Institute

Eating your own dog food is worth the challenge. After a few years of consulting, I started to feel the itch to work on a product again. I was teaching...

Podcast: Product Management in Agile Orgs

After Mile High Agile, I sat down with Howard Sublett from SolutionsIQ for the Agile Amped Podcast. We talked about how Product Management is missing from many Agile Teams and...

Product Manager vs. Product Owner

 “What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?” It’s an interesting question and one that takes time to unpack. Let’s look at where these terms and...

Getting Sales + Product In Sync

What does an effective sales team look like at a product-led organization? “Sales already promised it.” I once joined a B2B company as a Product Manager in the the middle...

Student Spotlight: Kristen Ablamsky

Product Institute is an online school for Product Managers looking to level up their skills. We’re featuring some of our recent graduates and asking them to share their experiences, both...

Student Spotlight: Dave Masters

Product Institute is an online school for Product Managers looking to level up their skills. We're featuring some of our recent graduates and asking them to share their experiences, both...