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by zzalpha 11y ago
Precisely what I've done in the past. Excellent advice. Let's you put a toe in the contracting water while having someone more experienced to help guide and mentor you as you sort out basic issues like requirements gathering and
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by zzalpha 11y ago
There seems to be a religious fervor to his essays that thier way is morally better Weird, reading this thing, I never got a sense that he was saying that his approach was better , only that it wasn't worse ...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
And yet, you yourself have left out: Marketing of any kind. PMs often are either directly involved with marketing or work with a PMM. Market and competitor analysis. Tracking and being held accountable for KPIs, particularly P&L. Strat
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Incidentally, if you wanted to identify one of the major pain points of a company transitioning from no PM to having PM, this is one of them. In a small company sans PM, this work is done by the CEO or CTO. Deferring that to even a VP-leve
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by zzalpha 11y ago
"Because I'm the PM" is too often the only reason given, and of course that leads to animosity. Ah, well, that's a different problem: PM arrogance. Confidence + Humility is not contradictory to Leadership, but unfortu
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by zzalpha 11y ago
I've worked with some pretty good PMs, but even they seemed to be good primarily because they had good gut instincts and not because they applied a rigorous process. So have you provided a rigorous, data-driven defense of every decis
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Well, to be blunt: a closed-minded PM is, by definition, a crappy PM. Listening to experts and external stakeholders is literally one of the core parts of the job. That's not to say a PM has to take their advice. But if they choose
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Unfortunately, you're 100% right about all of that... This is getting afield, but I'm in a rather tough spot: late stage startup that continues to grow, and one I've been involved with for a very long time, so I've inves
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by zzalpha 11y ago
It's a really long article explaining and justifying what "Product" is. TBH, I didn't think the article was justifying the role so much as justifying the ambiguity that surrounds it. The fact that PM touches so many ar
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Interesting piece... As a relatively newly minted Product Manager, I struggle, every day, to figure out what, exactly, my job is, other than to abuse commas (I'm in a rather odd spot in that I have no mentor and weak senior leadership,
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Good point, there's a lot more to the article than that. Unfortunately, it's the only objective measure offered. Where are the defect rates? Coverage in unit tests? Time to delivery? User satisfaction measures?
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Do we really care that much about LoC? I understand that more code means more opportunity for bugs, but I'd be far more concerned about performance, battery usage, code quality metrics, etc, not to mention maintainability and codebase
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by zzalpha 11y ago
The movie doesn't examine anything. Well, I can tell you're open minded and not too critical. I'm sure continuing this conversation will be incredibly productive and enlightening...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
It seems you aren't diffentiating between the narrative structure versus the narrative themes . Structurally, yeah, obviously they're very different. However, thematically, they share a lot of similarities. In The Drumhead, Sta
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by zzalpha 11y ago
It prioritizes communication and curiousity over violence and dominance. In the context of the series, sure, where you have an hour a week to wax philosophical. The movies are far more uneven in that respect. They attempted it in The Mot
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Wrath of Khan is only good because of Mantalban. The movies didn't really pick up until the fourth one, when they stopped taking them so seriously and just had some fun making a movie. So you're a "Trouble with Tribbles&quo
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by zzalpha 11y ago
They're mostly generic action in space with some familiar names and Starfleet uniforms. You've just described the Wrath of Khan, considered one of the finest films in the franchise. Hell, a good number of episodes in every serie
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by zzalpha 11y ago
When I think about the first settlers that sailed across the Atlantic to colonize America, it seems amazing to me that people were willing to give up so much and endure such risks and hardships, but there have always been people that will
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by zzalpha 11y ago
A human driver would never be driving that fast. Taking into account familiarity with typical human behaviour, if you're in a lane that is moving well, you will expect at least some drivers from a slow lane to try to squeeze their way
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Random aside: am I the only one who finds Nautilus articles are often needlessly padded? I get the goal of writing a story-style magazine science article. I've read my fair share, and executed well, they can make for an enjoyable rea
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Weird... I'd never considered that an AI might be like a genie or a deal with the devil... Be careful what you wish for or you might be surprised by what you get.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
After the fact, you may not be able to tell if a district map was gerrymandered. But you can sure as hell tell if gerrymandering was happening, simply by examining the process itself. Was the process transparent and dictated by clear and u
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Negating and ignoring the subjective experience of women is very root of the problem in question. You do realize you can criticize someone of being a bad actor without aiding and abetting sexism. Can't you? Or would you have me beli
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by zzalpha 11y ago
"Keep your head down" has never been a constructive strategy for minority groups targeted by discrimination. Where did I say she should do that? I said she should be mature and maintain the moral high ground. I didn't say
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by zzalpha 11y ago
In other words, if this is a real problem, your undeniably good advice actually isn't constructive towards fixing the root issue. It's allowing it to perpetuate. And raging on Tumblr is? Look, if there's some deeply embedde
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by zzalpha 11y ago
There's a LOT of reading between the lines going on, here. Going from Matt doesn’t feel comfortable around you. He’s worried that you either don’t like him for some reason, or you’re mad at him. He thinks maybe you’re upset about
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Not to mention, they want more business. A cleaner who steals doesn't work for long. The business is heavily driven by referrals and references.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Doh... You're absolutely right...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
It's no longer taboo to engage in sex outside of marriage Oo I don't know what planet you live on, but I'm fairly sure, side from open marriages where the couple mutually agrees to this, sex outside marriage isn't so m
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Uhh... The question was "what's an example of undefined behaviour". I gave one, specifically of an example that could realistically break by relying on undefined behaviour. That's it. Simple education. In the context o

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