Andy Nortrup

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I'm a Father, Product Manager and Army veteran living in the Seattle area. I grow bonsai and cycle on my limited spare time.

I've do product management work at
#Cribl, formerly at #Tanium and #Splunk.

#veteran
#productmanagement
#bonsai
#seattle
Webhttps://www.nortrup.dev/
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Alright folks, I'm moving back to @andy, should be automated for most but you've been warned.

"When your product manager is overwhelmed, you don’t need to add a product owner. You need to move from a project-based discovery model toward a more continuous discovery model."

https://www.producttalk.org/2020/10/product-managers-product-owners/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=tweet-this&utm_campaign=Weekly+Social+Media

#prodmgmt #ux #engineering

Product Managers and Product Owners: What’s the Difference? | Product Talk

Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. For this month’s Product […]

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Product Ops as the engine not the fuel

I had intended to write a big long post on all the things I learned as a Product Ops leader as Tanium for a year, but it got long and rambly, so I’m going to attempt a series of shorter posts that will hopefully get written. Lesson one, when you are working on process of the product team, you are building engines not fuel. This is a metaphor from my good friend Jack Coates (Part 1 Part 2) that he usually applies to building end user products that need content, and that no one wants to build content and teams want to build engines because they are fun and sexy.

Nortrup in Development
Thing I learned about having a single user instance, I should have setup a separate admin account to be the admin then had a regular user.

This is both good IT and security practice, but also, would have made it easier to move out of the instance.

#fediverse #firefish

A PNW-related weird ag & food fact for Kyle Grove! (If I tag you that may turn the reply into a DM, which, boo).

There's a seagrass, Zostera marina, that's full of sugar (to help handle the osmotic pressure from the salt in seawater). Peoples in the Salish Sea use it as a vegetable! You can eat the rhizomes & leaf-bases raw, steam the rhizomes like a root veggie, dry them into a flour, etc.

Eelgrass is endangered now so we should leave it alone. But good reason to restore seagrass beds!

I fixed my cruise control on my car without going to the dealership, I feel like a small god.

The fix was reading some error messages and cleaning some cameras.
It is not a good thing that I can go running in a T-shirt and shorts on new years eve.

#globalwarming
@mydogwrotethis @RickiTarr
I believe that Bill Watterson said that he’s real to Calvin and a stuffed tiger to the adults and both those things are true and that’s that. Hobbes doesn’t “turn back;” he just is.
Can’t believe they’re going to roll 2024 out to Production late on a Sunday, right before a public holiday, without testing it in Staging, and without fixing any of the bugs in 2023.
Interesting article in the Seattle Times about tree species migration. I have a neighbor with towering coast redwood and giant sequoia on their property, and I've seen them in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma.

I'm growing both two kinds of redwood, and an Oregon Myrtle in my
#bonsai collection.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/as-northwest-tree-species-decline-assisted-migration-gains-popularity/

#pnw #seattle #trees
As tree species face decline, ‘assisted migration’ gains popularity in Pacific Northwest

As native trees in the Pacific Northwest die off due to climate changes, the U_S_ Forest Service and others are turning to a strategy called “assisted migration.”.

The Seattle Times