Tech product person in infosec. 10+ years in #prodmgmt. Tired but happy mom. Chicana in Chicago. Always building 🛠️ now➡️ @inthelabpm. Tweets my own.
Sep 13, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I recommend that people trying to get into product management and early career PdMs invest time into making a portfolio.
It's a great way to stand out from the crowd and emphasizes your existing skills on your own terms.
Some tips on #prodmgmt portfolios:
Product manager portfolios are a mix of words (narrative of what you did + any written components of your portfolio) and images (wireframes and/or screengrabs)
Keep that in mind when choosing how to build your portfolio. Some good tools: @NotionHQ, @Medium, @carrd are easy/fast
Aug 26, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This Friday's #prodmgmt story is about the extremely fraught process of "doing a rebuild" 💀 and then moving customers over to your new app.
If you work in tech long enough, you'll find a CTO or VP of Eng who really would like to rebuild the app. New backend, new UI, whatever...
This is usually because the existing app is full of issues and hardcoded logic and built on an outdated stack. For this story, we had all of those things. The app wasn't resilient and it needed a facelift asap.
The engineering team carved out 18 months to rewrite the app.
Jun 21, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
A few times in my career, I have found myself working with a dev team that is totally off-track.
They don't really know what they're building, have 200 top priorities, and are getting inundated with asks.
I usually find them stressed as hell. Here's what I do as a PM - 🧵
1. First, announce your intentions - "I'm here to help get you organized so you can get your work done easier."
Most people will appreciate this. If they are defensive, they are probably too stressed to process stuff - keep repeating intentions and provide a safe space to vent.
Jun 6, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I graduated college 15 years ago (😱) and I've worked at 10 companies. Recently, a few people asked me about this "job hopping" and first off, obv, non-white dudes generally have a ROUGH time in tech, so it happens. But let's talk about why job hopping is actually helpful 🧵
1. Quickly pattern match
Job hopping exposes you to a lot of different environments and you can start to rapidly pattern match when dysfunctions arise. A bully in tech? An indecisive CEO? A frustrated sales manager? Yep, seen it, handled it, learned from it.
