Obligatory image … so that Medium recommends the post.I hit a goal of sorts today: 175 posts on product development. Actually… the goal was 150, but I was having so much fun I forgot about the challenge to myself in my notebook.

A big thanks to the folks who check out the posts. Your comments, recommendations, and reads have kept me motivated. Over the last 18 months of writing, I have learned a ton about myself. Some recent posts — The Product Of You, and To the Drifters, Makers, Why-Askers, and Systems Thinkers… — have represented shifts for me personally. I have come to accept more about who I am, where I thrive, and how I’d like to create impact. And that is due in no small part to the awesome product development community here on Medium, and on Twitter (@johncutlefish). Thanks again!

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The posts …

1. The Product Of You
2. 40 Ways to Invest in More Resilient Teams
3. Safety In Silos
4. To the Drifters, Makers, Why-Askers, and Systems Thinkers…
5. Great Burgers
6. To be a team
7. 21 Questions for Your PM Role Interviewer
8. Hard Systems, Soft Systems, and “It Depends”
9. Standup!
10. Vacation: Product, Project, or Portfolio?
11. Doers and Managers
12. Low Effort / High Value? Think Again…
13. Why We Write Tickets
14. SaaS and Value Stream Soup
15. 7 Abilities You Must Defend (and Improve)
16. Why Do Things Get Worse (With Teams) ?
17. Product Development Team Self-Assessment
18. Have You Heard That One About SAFe?
19. Why Do We Estimate?
20. You Can’t Be All Things…
21. Learned Helplessness and the Ops Death-Spiral
22. Best Practices, Games, and Game Changing
23. “I Hate Kanban…;”
24. Service Machines and SaaS Robots
25. When Your Head Hurts
26. Roots of the Feature Factory (1/n)
27. Putting a Cost On Debt
28. Everything Is Fucked Up. And We Love It
29. So Why Are We Going So Slow? (Cartoon)
30. Feedback Loops and “Done”
31. Psychological safety: the secret weapon of awesome teams
32. 5 Product Development Questions
33. PMs: Try This Thought Experiment
34. “Is My Dev Team Slacking?”
35. Destroy Your Product (Without Getting Fired)
36. Tools: Complexity Enablers
37. Kanban Method: Be Careful About Your Board’s Scope
38. Your Customers Don’t Care If…
39. Answer These 16 Questions About Your Roadmap Items
40. Coherence and “Best Practices”
41. Keep Features Off Your Roadmap
42. It Appears We Need More Individual Accountability
43. Story Point Alternative: 1–3d Stories
44. Outcomes? We’re Programmed to Get into the Weeds
45. Do You Ask For Story-Level Estimates?
46. 10 Big Software PM Time Wasters
47. Unvalidated Complexity is a Liability
48. Usability Principles and Onboarding
49. The 20 Jobs Of In-App Messaging
50. Product vs. Single Projects (and 8x Teams)
51. Trello, “Jira Sucks”, and Tool Dysfunction
52. We Are What We Learn
53. Completed != Validated
54. #NoEstimates. Two Different Problems
55. The Learning Styles Myth and User Onboarding
56. Play Your Own Game
57. Talking Product: Running Themes from a Year of Conversations
58. 20 Ways to Kill Elephants (In Rooms)
59. 90 Problems You’ve Heard About Before
60. PM “Responsibilities” ?
61. 50 Things I’ve Learned About Product Management
62. Untangling OKRs with a Big, Visual Board
63. What We Can’t See
64. Evangelist/Consultant Myopia
65. 140 Product Management Action Verbs
66. A 12-Step Program for Recovering Product Managers
67. Startups and the Enterprise Vortex
68. Safety, Discomfort, and the Art of Self-Service Un***king
69. Place Your Bets
70. Dear Product Managers …
71. Beat the Feature Factory — With Biz Chops
72. Success Theater …
73. 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory
74. Visualizing Debt, Rework, Cut Corners, and Frustration
75. Case Study: From The Front Lines
76. Cutting Corners and Electric Fences
77. Acute vs. Chronic Product Issues
78. 50 Questions I Ask PMs About Data and Their Teams
79. Your Saas Company Is Like a Theme Park
80. 40+ Lies PMs Tell Themselves
81. 10 Ways UX Research Is Changing
82. PMs: How To Make Sure You Aren’t Wasting Everyone’s Time
83. SaaS and the Impostor Clairvoyant PM
84. 24-Point Checklist for PM/PO Candidates
85. Should We Do [ Agile, Kanban, Design Thinking, LeanUX, …;]
86. Helicopter Management, Teal, and Stirring The Soup
87. 10 Ways PMs Can Earn The Respect and Trust of Their Team
88. What Do You Need? What Do We Need?
89. 30 Things I Think about When Meeting a Product Dev Org for the First Time
90. #agilebrandproblem
91. To the 40+ Year Old PMs
92. 6 Questions to Guide Continuous Improvement
93. The Overlap
94. Product Development Nerds Unite
95. The Healthy Tension Trap
96. PMs/POs: 25 Things You Can Try Now
97. It’s All Good. Until You’re Screwed
98. The CynAgileanUXanbanicrumify Method
99. Why Startups Need 3rd Party Accountability Coaches
100. 16 Quick Product Management Tips
101. Explaining Product/Market Fit in 60 Seconds
102. Do We Need Product Managers?
103. Maybe You’re Just Bored. And It’s Your Fault
104. Agile: Don’t Exchange Waterfalls for Whirlpools
105. 10 Things I Learned By Doodling For 100 Days Straight
106. Startups: Be Awesome At Something
107. Complexity Is a Startup Killer. Don’t Grow Up
108. Beat the Feature Factory: Run Pre-cap Design Studios
109. company culture is…
110. The Evolving Product Manager Role
111. Pain, Potential, and Outcomes
112. The Tease
113. Chasing Revenue Growth (and Hidden Costs)
114. 5 Simple Questions to Drive Validated Learning
115. 35 B2B SaaS Tips and Gentle Reminders
116. Be the Laziest Team and Win
117. 7 Product Manager / Product Owner Archetypes
118. 44 Signs You Are Becoming a “Real” PM/PO
119. That B2B SaaS Savvy Thing
120. Focus on These 8 Things to Build Better Products
121. Just a Lifestyle Business …
122. Is It Safe for Your Team to Get “Real”
123. Where Do We Put The UX Tasks?
124. 12 Traits of a Powerful Product Vision
125. Focus is the Ultimate Process
126. Is Agile Dead?
127. You Don’t Need A “Great Product”
128. The Unseen Product is Still The Product
129. Enter Through The Narrow Gate (Go Deep)
130. Quit Planning Ahead and Keeping People Busy
131. 45 Posts On Product Development
132. Before You Join A Startup …
133. What Does “Sales-Driven” Even Mean?
134. Real World Kanban (A Cartoon)
135. Your Product is a Service…
136. Go Towards The Discomfort (It’s A Sign)
137. 100 Product Development Hats
138. The Killer Sales Instinct vs. Startup Validation
139. Product! Stop Whining About Sales!
140. 10 Common PM Intuition Traps
141. Opening Your Eyes to Real Customer Delight
142. Stop Setting Up Product Roadmaps To Fail
143. A SaaS Startup Cautionary Tale
144. How Much Does A New Feature Cost?
145. Time Management: Tips for Product Managers
146. Your Startup: Food Truck or Buffet?
147. Decision Making Transparency (The Why)
148. 12 Core Competencies For Product Managers
149. What Startup Sales Can Learn From UX
150. How To Tame Engineers, Be A Rockstar, and Ship ****ing Product
151. Team Health: A Daily Checkup
152. A Better Roadmap | Mind-Map | Mousetrap
153. Getting The All-Hands Right
154. Talking The Talk: 32 Conversation Prompts for Product Development Teams
155. To Experiment Is Human. Reality is a **cker. And The Law Of Two Feet
156. Focus Until It Hurts
157. The Iron Triangle Is Dead
158. Persona(s) Non Grata
159. 50 Interview Questions For B2B SaaS Customer Research
160. As Product Managers We’re Asking Ourselves The Wrong Set Of Questions
161. This PM Hack Saved Me 1 Hour A Day
162. The Way Of The Product Whatchamacallit
163. Hidden Costs of the Sales-Driven Roadmap
164. 10 Questions For Your (Product Role) Interviewer
165. User Stories and Data
166. Juggling Growth and Usability: A UX Debt Primer
167. 104 Questions For Product Development Teams
168. Product Ownership: 10 Core Principles
169. Good Process, Bad Process
170. Sticky Love — Choosing Between Physical Boards and Online Tools
171. Life, Death, Continuous Improvement, and Continuous Disruption
172. Dr. Obvious, Startup Validation, and Failure
173. Inside My Kindle: 100 Books For PMs, UX, Entrepreneurs, Systems Thinkers, Design Thinkers, and…
174. 7 Tips For Better Prototypes
175. 8 Trends Shaping Modern Product Management