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benkan··on Just Show Me the Prompt
Yes, that happens. But mostly, the information can be compressed or expanded a lot. And with GenAI, people tend to expand the text carrying the information, even though the expansion itself it useless.
benkan··on The Scrum decline: It's three years later, and I was right
Image a one-day sprint. Won't this be Kanban anyway?
benkan··on Product Management is all about people, not technology
Indeed! Engineering teams are built of people with different skills. But they all have to deliver value for the customer (and the company).
benkan··on What Are Outcomes?
No, not a deliverable. I change in behaviour caused by that deliverable.
benkan··on How to Make Your Message Stick: The Art of Repetition
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benkan··on I built an RPG and LLM jailbreaking adventure game
This is addicting. How did you provide the context? Did you provide the main theme of the story? The prompts to ChatGPT must me huge.
benkan··on Product Owners Are Not Backlog Managers
Then there wouldn't be a justification for architects and DB specialists to exist. It's a separation of skills into a designated role.
benkan··on Product Owners Are Not Backlog Managers
In general or only if there is a Product Manager? Why?
benkan··on Product Owners Are Not Backlog Managers
Yes, and i have seen teams working entirely without a formal backlog of user stories. Some use a large wall chart, some use a User Story Map without any kind of Scrum of Kanban process... in some teams this also works.
benkan··on Ask HN: Product Management Insights (software development)
Maybe one of these link lists can help: https://www.leadinginproduct.com/p/link-books-useful-collect...

They are cheap and useful if you have sufficient time to read, especially the ones about team structures and recruiting. They contain more content about roles and structures.

benkan··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://www.leadinginproduct.com/

It's about product management, leadership, engineering organizations, and related topics. I still consider it personal because all of the content stems from personal experience.

benkan··on Remote Work and Personal Trust
And yet, software product managers mostly do not have managerial authority. They manage the product, not the people. But they need to influence the people anyway.
benkan··on Remote work requires asynchronous communication
It could be email, but it also be Confluence, Notion, OneNote, or something like that. I understand that you think a chat solution like Slack or Teams or Mattermost is too "chatty", right?
benkan··on Scrum will die Scrum was successful in the past, but its time is over
I guess you're right about that. Do you need cycles of two weeks for that? (Scrum officially doesn't force two-week cycles, but it's still the norm)

How do you handle Continuous Deployment then? Only to Staging?

benkan··on All Product Managers Are Leaders, and Engineers and Designers as Well
Note: I am a product manager myself I see the team of PM, Engineer, Design, Data, etc. as one team consisting of people with different skills. The skillset of a PM does not include coding, but it helps to have some technical understanding to discuss on eye level. The skillset of a software developer does not include user understanding (for example), but it helps to have some idea of user situation to discuss on eye level. If all functions understand what the others do, the team will be successful.

In my opinion, your experience of product managers sounds like people with poor understanding both of the job of a dev and of the job of a PM. No blame.

benkan··on Mathematicians invent new ‘Einstein’ shape
Called ‘the hat’, the 13-sided shape can be arranged in a tile formation such that it never forms a repeating grid
benkan··on Groovy Datasets for Test Databases
When you experiment with a new-to-you data science skill, you need some sort of data to work with. Why be boring?
benkan··on [dead]
Notion alternatives for notes, project management, spreadsheets, and whiteboard collaboration
benkan··on A group of college students send a rover the size of a shoebox to the moon
Thank you!
benkan··on A group of college students send a rover the size of a shoebox to the moon
Has anyone more information or a freely accessible link?
benkan··on Our Shift to Usage-Based Pricing
The vendor would have a problem with disincentivized usage becaused in the model, it earns the money purely by usage. It is a commercial problem, not a technical one. The company wishes to earn money, yet puts in place a model that decreases its only revenue driver.
benkan··on Our Shift to Usage-Based Pricing
I believe that usage-based pricing is valuable to the customer, but I see one problem for the vendor: If each use of the product is billed, this provides an incentive NOT to use the product. In other words, you actively drive usage down.

I'm not saying that I am against usage-based pricing or that it does not make sense, but especially in B2C markets, this might be a problem.

benkan··on AI and the American Smile
Interesting. The article suggests a "Western" smile culture, but there is also a difference between Americans and Europeans when it comes to smiling.
benkan··on [dead]
Scrum is beyond its peak. It is a framework that with diminish in importance and will eventually die. But in today software world, Scrum is just too slow.

Engineers set up pipelines for Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment in the meantime. Changes can be applied weekly, daily, or even hourly. That actually happens in productive systems:

benkan··on [dead]
Use this cheat sheet to move beyond the awkward 1:1 meeting silence, no matter of you are the manager or the employee.

This meeting is not about current operational problems, current operational developments, Jira issues, bug reports, or deadlines. This meeting is a reserved space, usually happening once a month, to talk and think about things like personal concerns, wishes, career goals, fun at work, chances for the company or the employee, or motivation.

benkan··on Product management is about instinct, not data
I agree. Product managers can build a kind of product instinct or product sense. If you combine that with data, results are best. That's why "data-driven" is not the best approach. A "data-informed" approach uses data and combines it with a strong, opinionated product manager's product sense.
benkan··on Skin in the Game
Do you automatically parse Slack messages or is this manual work? I would imagine that manually readign through all these messages is a lot of effort, so ideally you would automate the entire process.
benkan··on I saved and published a 15-year list of product management articles
The process of building the digital product management stack: A resource list for tech product managers. Saved first in bookmarks, then in Wordpress, now in Airtable.
benkan··on SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux
Thank you!
benkan··on SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux
BeOS! Good memories. I tried out BeOS maybe 20 years ago until it was dropped. Is it still maintained?
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