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Junior PM: I'm struggling with my engineering manager. He keeps pushing back on everything I propose.
Senior PM: What's your relationship like with him?
Junior PM: Honestly? Pretty tense. He thinks I don't understand technical constraints.
Senior PM: Do you?
Junior PM: I mean... I try to, but I'm not an engineer.
Senior PM: That's not what I asked.
Junior PM: I don't know. Maybe not deeply enough.
Senior PM: Here's what most PMs miss about difficult stakeholders.
Junior PM: Tell me.
Senior PM: Their pushback isn't personal. It's information.
Junior PM: What kind of information?
Senior PM: About where your plans will fail in reality.
Junior PM: So he's... helping me?
Senior PM: His resistance is a technical reality check. What if you treated it that way?
Junior PM: I'd ask more questions instead of defending my ideas.
Senior PM: Like what?
Junior PM: What technical risks am I not seeing? What would make this easier to build?
Senior PM: And then?
Junior PM: He might actually help me make better plans.
Senior PM: But here's the deeper issue.
Junior PM: What do you mean?
Senior PM: You said he thinks you don't understand technical constraints.
Junior PM: Right.
Senior PM: Do you show empathy for his role?
Junior PM: I... don't know what you mean.
Senior PM: When you walk into meetings, are you thinking about what would make his job easier?
Junior PM: Usually I'm thinking about what I need from him.
Senior PM: There it is.
Junior PM: So I should focus on his success, not mine?
Senior PM: Your success depends on his success. Show him you understand that.
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“Norway and Canada are two of the world’s safest places statistically when it comes to violent crime.”
Canada named second safest country in the world from violent crime cultmtl.com/2025/02/canada-h…
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Your brain has been fooling you your entire life.
This Nobel Prize winner spent 40 years proving it.
Here are the 10 mental traps controlling every decision you make: 🧵
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$BCE $BCE.TO ... @Bell why is Bell laying off staff this week without announcing it?? layoffs started today and continue all week long @globeandmail @TorontoStar @nationalpost #firemirko
The Cloud Wars CEO of the Year Is Christian Klein | Cloud Wars Live accelerationeconomy.com/clou…
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Why do we need Technical Engineering Managers?
Below is a list of Lesser-Known Reasons why we need More Technical Engineering Managers:
1- Prevent team members from underperforming due to a lack of opportunities! How? 👇
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NASA’s “Project Mercury ran with very short (half-day) iterations that were time boxed. The development team conducted a technical review of all changes, and, interestingly, applied the Extreme Programming practice of test-first development.” craiglarman.com/wiki/downloa…
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At Tiny, I've hired CEOs for 60+ companies and interviewed hundreds of others.
After over a decade of trial and error (and I mean BIG errors), here’s our hiring process:
Heuristics for Effective Software Development Organizations: A continuously evolving list.* holub.com/heuristics/ via @allenholub
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Focus, as Steve Jobs said, is about saying no.
The only dangerous competitors are focused ones.
Ergo there are things that even the most dangerous competitors say no to, and it would be worth thinking explicitly about what those are.
The Two Engines of SaaS: QCRs and DEVs – Kellblog kellblog.com/2018/05/29/the-…
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From 3 days to 3 months, my most underestimated Open Source contribution is finally landing 😆🎉 Can't wait for the next React Native release candidate! github.com/facebook/react-na…
Great article for PMs out there... “If I Could Relearn Product Management” by @whosjluk
link.medium.com/7iuBpzGT98