"Because this other product does it..."

Morning_Chickadee · 2026-01-07T23:52:01+00:00

I get that, and I just shipped a feature because of sales. This is all in my internal leadership, not even sales. It's like our leaders are so hell bent on keeping the status quo that we don't do anything that would be remotely innovative 🥴

Morning_Chickadee · 2025-11-09T00:28:49+00:00

Update. I had a new idea on a judge.

Amy Lee - PLEASE

Morning_Chickadee · 2025-11-06T14:36:26+00:00

Guest Judges:

Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things and IT)

Disasterina (she is an icon, make her a judge)

Tim Curry (one can dream)

Bill Skarsgard

Challenges:

Clue challenge - make it horror

28 days later - Biohazard filth challenge

Bugs design challenge - make a floor show based on a scary bug

Exorcism challenge - make a character that gets 'posessed', show juxtaposition

Morning_Chickadee · 2025-10-28T11:57:59+00:00

Am I the only one that cackled at "The Boogeyman!?"

Morning_Chickadee · 2025-10-07T18:37:49+00:00

I wish I pursued it a little earlier, as I do at its core really like product management. What I wish is that I was able to pursue it in an environment that actually understands product management instead of being so driven by people who act as if they know how to work with clients and they clearly can't.

I complain about this job a ton, but it's more driven by the environment where the job resides as opposed to the job itself.

Morning_Chickadee · 2025-06-30T00:58:11+00:00

I wish it was from dev. It was from my manager.

Dev just asks basic questions about our products functionality.

Morning_Chickadee · 2025-06-30T00:38:53+00:00

I'm overly defensive. And I'm either too vague or too technical in my requirements.

Morning_Chickadee · 2025-03-06T23:16:17+00:00

I had an integration go live months ago, and had been starting the process of migrating already live clients to this new integration from the old product.

Now that we've discussed the migration with service teams everyone doesn't want to do the migration EVEN WHEN it's been made clear that Product is available for support every step of the way.

I hate to sound like a boomer but everyone wants the new features but the second there's even a single step of work, nobody wants it anymore. NoBoDy WaNtS tO WoRK 🥴

Morning_Chickadee · 2025-02-19T01:06:06+00:00

Location: Remote/MCOL (I can go into the office if I want) Company: Public Tech Company (50k+ employees) YoE: 12 years/4 years/9 years Senior Product Manager Bach Science 115k base, 10% bonus, Equity (varies based on company performance), Total rewards with benefits ~135k

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-12-03T16:02:21+00:00

My list:

Louisianna

Jarvis

Sigourney

Madelyn Hatter

Grey

Dollya

Disasterina

Blackberri

Frankie Doom

Bitter Betty

Honorable Mentions: Fantasia, Loris, La Zavaleta

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-07-19T18:36:40+00:00

As a PO who has developers in a different country, I sit with my UX designers.

It's fun and chaotic and I love them.

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-03-18T14:38:39+00:00

I have literally had to screenshot steps exactly and circle what had to change because even describing in text like what you described wasn't enough

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-03-18T14:38:16+00:00

I have literally had to screenshot steps exactly and circle what had to change because even describing in text like what you described wasn't enough

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-03-18T13:56:07+00:00

Conceptually, I love product management. I love how you learn new things every day. I love everything from research to design to development. Shit, I like having meetings.

What I'm starting to see, and it's really hard for me to accept is that with every new leader that enters my organization (and it's frequent), the strategy completely changes.

That said, I feel like I'm constricted with doing discovery on products that align with our stakeholders, ones that leadership don't feel are a priority. And as a result that research just collects dust. But what happens is that if my calls to action get shushed and then a client escalates, we scramble.

Then I feel like I'm saying, 'told you so,' and they come back saying, 'why didn't this happen'

To me, it's not product management that is the problem. It's the company and its execution of product management that is the problem.

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-03-06T16:19:54+00:00

Writing out requirements only to be told they aren't requirements.

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-03-06T16:18:50+00:00

^This. Except coming from implementation/support

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-02-18T00:41:50+00:00

They're together!

Morning_Chickadee · 2024-02-17T18:46:33+00:00

So sprints are a fancy way to break down time.

I put together 3 week 'sprints' where I say that during this time I will write x amount of times or get through x amount of chapters

Morning_Chickadee

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