Time flies when you’re figuring stuff out (and getting more confused)

Just realized … wow, 110 posts!

Writing on Medium is my way of thinking stuff through. It’s a messy process, with lots of revisiting ideas, and a big dose of angst. Things got crazy in the last 30 days with 200,000+ views (thanks Reddit, that’s it, I can retire), but my expectations with any particular post are low. I expect it to flop, and get pleasantly surprised when folks find it.

I love all things product development related. There’s something so powerful about small groups of smart craftspeople building stuff, validating it, tweaking/refining it, and delivering real value — not success theater — to customers and the business. Naive? Maybe. But hey, we pick our path.

Medium oddly makes it hard to get a nice, clean list of your posts. So to celebrate 110, here goes …

1. A 12-Step Program for Recovering Product Managers View story
2. Startups and the Enterprise Vortex View story
3. Safety, Discomfort, and the Art of Self-Service Un***king View story
4. Place Your Bets View story
5. Dear Product Managers … View story
6. Beat the Feature Factory — With Biz Chops View story
7. Success Theater … View story
8. 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory View story
9. Visualizing Debt, Rework, Cut Corners, and Frustration View story
10. Case Study: From The Front Lines View story
11. Cutting Corners and Electric Fences View story
12. Acute vs. Chronic Product Issues View story
13. 50 Questions I Ask PMs About Data and Their Teams View story
14. Your Saas Company Is Like a Theme Park View story
15. 40+ Lies PMs Tell Themselves View story
16. 10 Ways UX Research Is Changing View story
17. PMs: How To Make Sure You Aren’t Wasting Everyone’s Time View story
18. SaaS and the Impostor Clairvoyant PM View story
19. 24-Point Checklist for PM/PO Candidates View story
20. Should We Do [ Agile, Kanban, Design Thinking, LeanUX, …][ View story](https://medium.com/p/should-we-do-1b5d0a1af092)
21. Helicopter Management, Teal, and Stirring The Soup View story
22. 10 Ways PMs Can Earn The Respect and Trust of Their Team View story
23. What Do You Need? What Do We Need? View story
24. 30 Things I Think about When Meeting a Product Dev Org for the First Time View story
25. #agilebrandproblem View story
26. To the 40+ Year Old PMs View story
27. 6 Questions to Guide Continuous Improvement View story
28. The Overlap View story
29. Product Development Nerds Unite View story
30. The Healthy Tension Trap View story
31. PMs/POs: 25 Things You Can Try Now View story
32. It’s All Good. Until You’re Screwed View story
33. The CynAgileanUXanbanicrumify Method View story
34. Why Startups Need 3rd Party Accountability Coaches View story
35. 16 Quick Product Management Tips View story
36. Explaining Product/Market Fit in 60 Seconds View story
37. Do We Need Product Managers? View story
38. Maybe You’re Just Bored. And It’s Your Fault View story
39. Agile: Don’t Exchange Waterfalls for Whirlpools View story
40. 10 Things I Learned By Doodling For 100 Days Straight View story
41. Startups: Be Awesome At Something View story
42. Complexity Is a Startup Killer. Don’t Grow Up View story
43. Beat the Feature Factory: Run Pre-cap Design Studios View story
44. company culture is… View story
45. The Evolving Product Manager Role View story
46. Pain, Potential, and Outcomes View story
47. The Tease View story
48. Chasing Revenue Growth (and Hidden Costs) View story
49. 5 Simple Questions to Drive Validated Learning View story
50. 35 B2B SaaS Tips and Gentle Reminders View story
51. Be the Laziest Team and Win View story
52. 7 Product Manager / Product Owner Archetypes View story
53. 44 Signs You Are Becoming a “Real” PM/PO View story
54. That B2B SaaS Savvy Thing View story
55. Focus on These 8 Things to Build Better Products View story
56. Just a Lifestyle Business … View story
57. Is It Safe for Your Team to Get “Real” View story
58. Where Do We Put The UX Tasks? View story
59. 12 Traits of a Powerful Product Vision View story
60. Focus is the Ultimate Process View story
61. Is Agile Dead? View story
62. You Don’t Need A “Great Product” View story
63. The Unseen Product is Still The Product View story
64. Enter Through The Narrow Gate (Go Deep) View story
65. Quit Planning Ahead and Keeping People Busy View story
66. Before You Join A Startup … View story
67. What Does “Sales-Driven” Even Mean? View story
68. Real World Kanban (A Cartoon) View story
69. Your Product is a Service… View story
70. Go Towards The Discomfort (It’s A Sign) View story
71. 100 Product Development Hats View story
72. The Killer Sales Instinct vs. Startup Validation View story
73. Product! Stop Whining About Sales
74. 10 Common PM Intuition Traps View story
75. Opening Your Eyes to Real Customer Delight View story
76. Stop Setting Up Product Roadmaps To Fail View story
77. A SaaS Startup Cautionary Tale View story
78. How Much Does A New Feature Cost? View story
79. Time Management: Tips for Product Managers View story
80. Your Startup: Food Truck or Buffet? View story
81. Decision Making Transparency (The Why) View story
82. 12 Core Competencies For Product Managers View story
83. What Startup Sales Can Learn From UX View story
84. How To Tame Engineers, Be A Rockstar, and Ship ****ing Product View story
85. Team Health: A Daily Checkup View story
86. A Better Roadmap | Mind-Map | Mousetrap View story
87. Getting The All-Hands Right View story
88. Talking The Talk: 32 Conversation Prompts for Product Development Teams View story
89. To Experiment Is Human. Reality is a **cker. And The Law Of Two Feet View story
90. Focus Until It Hurts View story
91. The Iron Triangle Is Dead View story
92. Persona(s) Non Grata View story
93. 50 Interview Questions For B2B SaaS Customer Research View story
94. As Product Managers We’re Asking Ourselves The Wrong Set Of Questions View story
95. This PM Hack Saved Me 1 Hour A Day (and helped me connect with more customers) View story
96. The Way Of The Product Whatchamacallit View story
97. Hidden Costs of the Sales-Driven Roadmap View story
98. 10 Questions For Your (Product Role) Interviewer View story
99. User Stories and Data View story
100. Juggling Growth and Usability: A UX Debt Primer View story
101. 104 Questions For Product Development Teams View story
102. Product Ownership: 10 Core Principles View story
103. Good Process, Bad Process View story
104. Sticky Love — Choosing Between Physical Boards and Online Tools View story
105. Life, Death, Continuous Improvement, and Continuous Disruption View story
106. Dr. Obvious, Startup Validation, and Failure View story
107. Inside My Kindle: 100 Books For PMs, UX, Entrepreneurs, Systems Thinkers, Design Thinkers, and… View story
108. 7 Tips For Better Prototypes View story
109. 8 Trends Shaping Modern Product Management View story
110. The System Thinking Change Agent Survival Guide View story