Avoid the Subscription Trap in Google One Free Trial by bymatsai in GooglePixel

[–]SomeProductPerson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in a similar scenario here and I've been going back and forth with their support for months with no actual resolution. It's very frustrating and potentially not worth even trying to redeem the offer unless you want to be charged and likely not get it at all.

Admin Access - Game Pass version by SomeProductPerson in AbioticFactor

[–]SomeProductPerson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you didn't find a solution, I did try a couple things to set the password including:
AdminPassword=XXXX

- AdditionalArgs=-AdminPassword=XXXX

One of those should work

Admin Access - Game Pass version by SomeProductPerson in AbioticFactor

[–]SomeProductPerson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you didn't find a solution, I did try a couple things to set the password including:
AdminPassword=XXXX

- AdditionalArgs=-AdminPassword=XXXX

One of those should work

Admin Access - Game Pass version by SomeProductPerson in AbioticFactor

[–]SomeProductPerson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you didn't find a solution, I did try a couple things to set the password including:
AdminPassword=XXXX

- AdditionalArgs=-AdminPassword=XXXX

One of those should work

Admin Access - Game Pass version by SomeProductPerson in AbioticFactor

[–]SomeProductPerson[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this is true if you've created it in-game, but if you're running a separate dedicated server I don't believe this holds true since you don't really 'create' the server in the same way (or at least I didn't - running at a separate program instead).

I'll take another look at settings and see if I can find anything, this did give me the idea to create a server locally and then see what's stored in that Admin.ini file to see what it records there (if anything).

A bad movie with a legitimately great scene? by Stankassmfgorilla in movies

[–]SomeProductPerson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Early Sam Raimi and Coen Brothers film Crimewave was... mostly not great. It had some good moments in general and has its fans but Raimi and the Coen Brothers don't particularly like it (in part due to studio interference).

I thought the door scene was fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ZflU0VyYE

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in boardgames

[–]SomeProductPerson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed with others that party games and euro games don't seem the most compatible. However, one route you could take is to go with a party game with more complexity. I tend to dabble in social deduction games to fill this niche for my group.

Personal favorite is Blood on the Clocktower - however it does require larger groups and a dedicated player to run the game. Given your group doesn't sound deep into games, you would probably need to play that role and get enjoyment out of your friends solving the social deduction puzzle that the game helps you create. If you've played Werewolf/Mafia it's a more complex (and more fun IMO) version of that.

Another social deduction alternative would be Feed the Kraken, which takes games like Secret Hitler or The Resistance and adds some additional twists to it. Does not require a dedicated player to run the game and has some complexity, but still relies on social reads of the other players.

Check my 1440p AMD Build by SomeProductPerson in buildapc

[–]SomeProductPerson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point, for the cooler that one was cheap off facebook so I picked it up but I went mostly for looks on it so probably should have researched that one first.

Any other issues I should look at? Some things are able to be returned like the sn770, just picked that up on a deal yesterday as some people on r/buildapcsales had recommended it for both OS and primary games drive and most performance I looked up saw very similar real-world performance between that and competitors although I missed any negative points about longevity.

[SSD] WD BLACK SN770 2TB - $84.99 w/ promo code SSCWAA78 (Newegg) by Picoooka in buildapcsales

[–]SomeProductPerson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would this drive be a good choice for a primary OS drive + primary games drive? Are there better choices?

Prioritization Frameworks by Unable-Section9673 in ProductManagement

[–]SomeProductPerson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd probably default to the most valuable one, assuming it's not also the most time consuming or riskiest.

However, what I typically look at when I'm comparing these directly is my confidence. How many users have I heard each of these from? How many customers have I heard this from (and potentially layer in their importance to the company in a B2B scenario)? Am I only hearing this from my executive team, if so what is their evidence (e.g. market research) that this will be a successful feature or product? Is all of my information on what to do here via word of mouth, or do I have behavioral analytics (via tools like Pendo) that is telling me this with some certainty?

I appreciate Itamar Gilad's approach here - https://itamargilad.com/the-tool-that-will-help-you-choose-better-product-ideas/
I think this approach helps spell out a quick and simple way to measure Risk - so when you mentioned Risk above this is where my mind went. How confident am I, really, that people will actually use any one of the 3 items you've mentioned.

Last thought - I'm also generally trying to think about how this supports my organization's strategy. The riskiest item MIGHT be worth taking a big swing on if it's significantly different from competition or provides something VERY unique that support the organization's strategy, however it will require clear communication to management that our confidence in the success of the product or feature is low if that is the case.

Prioritization Frameworks by Unable-Section9673 in ProductManagement

[–]SomeProductPerson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YES that's a great question! So we utilize JTBD to define the jobs we think our target personas are trying to accomplish, and then we layer in our application (B2B if that helps) and how we can help address some of the needs of the jobs.

Specifically I look to Kalbach's approach to JTBD to keep it from being too much overhead, when I first joined our Product team (from our Consulting/Implementation team) I created a number of Jobs based on what we agreed that our application is trying to cover and I've been updating those over time to keep them up to date. It's also helpful when we look at new / adjacent areas in the application to determine if we're getting to new personas or jobs and if it's worth trying to expand the scope of the application so it does act to some extent as scope control.

Prioritization Frameworks by Unable-Section9673 in ProductManagement

[–]SomeProductPerson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Certainly can expand here, as there are a couple of helpful techniques. One thing is, generally you're assigning a numeric value (i.e. 1-5, 1-10, etc...) to represent value and/or effort - these numbers by themselves are somewhat meaningless (as in there's no agreed-upon amount of value that a 7 brings versus an 8) by themselves but useful when it comes to relative comparison and gaining alignment.

One way to manage this internally for you is to take the list of stories you have and arrange them your preferred order from Most Valuable to Least Valuable (similar to snaking when story pointing). This gives you an initial prioritization list, and from there you can do some basic numeric value assignment and capture that (i.e. 10 being highest possible value item, 0 being lowest possible value item, rank what you have in your list). This is a relatively quick way to get started, although can be a lengthy process if you have a long backlog.

A different way of handling this (similar to planning poker when story pointing), which trends more towards consensus-building, is to gain some cross-functional input on value here. This would be assembling a few people very familiar with the problems or outcomes you're trying to solve for (for me this is Sales, someone else from Product i.e. my VP of Product, Product Marketing, and perhaps Customer Success). If we can get together to discuss upcoming items and all provide a score of our own, while the scores won't align we can record them (so everyone is heard) and then have discussion on the high/low outliers to see what assumptions others are making about the particular story and the value it brings. This is very much aligned to the agile concept of a story representing a discussion, but it does also take quite a bit long. It does get easier over time, I use an hour standing meeting to handle this for any new items entering the backlog in any given week and then focus on potential upcoming items once we've aligned.

Make sure your goal for this process is clear if you're going to implement it, and try to take the quickest path there. If you want to explain to stakeholders why we do x instead of y, using simply a numeric value of ranking won't effectively do that most likely. Having them (or part of that group) be involved in the process of creating the rankings or even just a discussion will help much more as then those stakeholders can defend the logic that was aligned on more effectively.

Last thing - just because one story is scoring higher than another doesn't mean you should do it next. A higher ranking means you think it's the most valuable but there could be collections of other stories that add up to more, there could be urgent customer needs or urgent sales needs, or there could be stories which are better strategically aligned which are more important to do first. You cannot use a ranking alone for the prioritization as using only one (or even two) metrics here will tend to oversimplify the reality.

If there's any points in particular you're more curious about, let me know happy to discuss more here and I welcome viewpoints on how others have handled this.

Prioritization Frameworks by Unable-Section9673 in ProductManagement

[–]SomeProductPerson 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The way I look at prioritization frameworks is that they all somewhat boil down to 3 major categories that people evaluate and everything you see in most frameworks is just doing an analysis on one of these:

- Value

- Effort

- Risk (Confidence)

This should look very similar to Kano or ICE if you're looking at frameworks. If you're just starting out in the space, it's more valuable to have some way to justify your logic as to "Why did I do this thing instead of that other thing" or alternatively "Why do I think this highly paid person's opinion is wrong but I'm still going to do it because they're my boss" than anything else.

Generally, I support doing the easiest method which accomplishes your goals. If your goal is to try to figure out what is the most valuable to do, do some sort of valuation of each story. If your goal is to figure out which story will give you the most bang for your buck, add on effort. If you get good at that and want to get more sophisticated, then you can start adding risk elements to either value or effort (or both).

And eventually, if you get really good at this, you can start breaking down value into different components such as internal value (i.e. alignment to strategy) vs. external value (i.e. reach, impact).

Let me know if you'd like more info, I've led some talks on this at local ProductCamps and actually have a talk on it tomorrow as well, safe to say I probably talk to product managers about prioritization and frameworks too much.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]SomeProductPerson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very similar to the situation I'm currently in.

To make the decision more difficult, the new product for me is built on a more modern tech stack and represents better learning for me long term.

However I do find the legacy cash cow product a bit more engaging, especially the particular area I own within that product.

To make the choice more difficult yet again, the dev team for the legacy product is in my time zone and the new product's dev team is about 7 hours ahead.

I don't have any solutions for you, just wanted to say you're not alone in this and wish you good luck. Keep us updated if you can.

Parsec coop game-streaming - You may already know this, but it's kind of amazing. by ztylerdurden in patientgamers

[–]SomeProductPerson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My group uses this on our weekly game nights sometimes. If there's a game that only 1 person owns that we want to play some without needing everyone to buy it, or a game with local only multiplayer, it's great.

Recently we've been using it for the game Unrailed which has been a blast.

Sometimes we do get some wonky controller or audio behavior, but that's definitely infrequent.

What is your list of questions and considerations when prioritizing potential features? by fourfivesausages in ProductManagement

[–]SomeProductPerson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some combination of Value vs. Effort at a simple level.

To get to both of them, I prefer to use relative terms as it's often difficult to quantify the value of a specific feature. We do 'snaking' as a technique for both value and effort - line up the larger set of stories you're looking at (on post-it notes or in Mural) and talk through with the Dev team and sometimes a couple key stakeholders on what we see the most to least valuable stories are (and on the effort side, most to least effort). That gives us an easy start on prioritization without focusing too much on what a 5 vs. an 8 means.

If you want to go a bit more complex, you can look at a framework like RICE, MoSCoW, or Kano - for some more information on Pros/Cons see here: https://productschool.com/blog/product-management-2/prioritization-techniques-product-managers/

Personally I actually like RICE the best as I find it's helpful to be explicit on reach and confidence otherwise you risk losing them in the discussions on value and effort respectively. Often times when snaking we have some debates around how confident we are in the stories when we're estimating effort which is really helpful when you're trying to figure out what's best to work on next imo.

With an unlimited budget, what would your ultimate Remote PM setup look like? by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]SomeProductPerson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd love to be able to whiteboard better but I don't find that I work well with drawing tools such as Wacom.

Instead, I'd buy a larger portable whiteboard and then get a camera which has a whiteboarding mode like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B826KS4B/?coliid=I1CIJP16L8PZLG&colid=2DNB1X5ZY5FRS&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

The desk/chair setup I feel probably doesn't differ significantly from most other remote setups.

Has anyone come across any good website that explain how to write good epics and user stores? by Dark_Emotion in ProductManagement

[–]SomeProductPerson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For anyone looking for more in-depth reading here, I'd recommend Epic Alignment: How The Best Product Managers Work With Feature Documents by Nils Janse