May likes products

@productnerd
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Product Operations, People, Systems
Personal Account: @MayInToronto

Apparently, there are heavy ice sheets falling from some office towers in Toronto recently.

Stay safe out there, friends!

#Toronto #Weather

Summarizing a recent discussion with CEOs about moving from mostly services to repeatable products... and how more of the work is on the go-to-market (GTM) side versus the technical side.

Exec-level questions and department-by-department challenges that may sound familiar.

https://www.mironov.com/s2p/ #product #leadership #organizations #cusomersuccess #incentives #goals

Moving from Services to Products

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See this and this and this and this.)  At a recent workshop in Christchurch NZ, I spent several hours talking with CEOs about the challenges of changing a company from mostly services

Rich Mironov's Product Bytes

#Slack is A/B testing a new layout and I hate it. It looks like Teams. I am in quite a few workspaces that I only mildly care about. I don't want all of this noise when I'm trying to do work.

#UX #product

https://doron.hashnode.dev/some-devs-are-curiously-not-programmers

A computer scientist who’s not dealing with software engineering?!

A software engineer who’s not dealing with development?!

A software dev who’s not dealing with programming?!

A programmer who’s not dealing with coding?!

An employee who’s purely coding?!

#programming #coding

Some devs are curiously not programmers

This is my logic about the relationships and distinctions between different terms that are often used in the software industry, such as computer scientist, software engineer, software developer, programmer, and coder. These terms may seem similar or ...

Doron B

As a person who spends too much time talking about #product , this level of brand loyalty makes me terribly uncomfortable.

https://botsin.space/@globeandmail/110990045214790880

The Globe and Mail (@[email protected])

When we lose a beloved product, we lose a part of ourselves. Call that what it is: grief https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-when-we-lose-a-beloved-product-we-lose-a-part-of-ourselves-call-that/

botsin.space

Some people follow a religion where they cannot eat pork.

My religion forbids proprietary or closed source software.

Some people make a holy pilgrimage - I am on a holy journey with my cryptographic keys.

I'm seeing more anti- #ProductOps discourse again on LinkedIn. Yes, this work tends to be the role of product leaders where product ops doesn't exist.

If you hire an administrator to do product ops, your administration will get done. If you hire a product person with change management experience to do product ops, you're building a better organization beyond just product.

So, do you want someone to make you a dashboard and templates, or do you want #productmanagement to make sense?

The TTC has confirmed the Scarborough RT will not re-open after its derailment last month. Press f to pay respects. #ToPoli #TTC

My biggest pricing pet peeve has a list!!
https://sso.tax/#fn:twilio

SSO alone should not inflict a massive price hike.
#product #pricing

The SSO Wall of Shame

A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement.

The SSO Wall of Shame

What even is an "Enterprise" in the context of #B2E?

As #product people, we spend a lot of time thinking about our specific target market, but rarely about the context of our clients' organizations. Why are B2E salespeople so much more demanding? When we understand the bigger picture of the complexity of huge organizations, we can then make product decisions that make sense for the Whole Product.

Read my latest article:
https://contextsoup.substack.com/p/what-is-a-large-enterprise

#productmanagement #enterprise

What is a Large Enterprise?

MegaCorp Unwrapped

Context Soup