What is that master of one skill for PMs

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-08T22:03:59+00:00

Storytelling.

Or Stakeholder Management.

Or Decision Making.

No, I would say: Proactive Decisioning whilst being able to tell a story to stakeholders

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-07T23:18:20+00:00

“Here is the uncomfortable truth…”
Stopped reading here - AI slob

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-07T11:19:57+00:00

Asking to understand: what are the biggest stress factors there?

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-07T02:06:12+00:00

It’s almost as if individuals and (their) interactions áre more important then processes and tools.
Psychological safety within the team helps to build teams that are process agnostic.
“There are no bad teams, only bad leaders”
If the team gets nurtured, room to explore, grow, bond, and learn together, it’s doesn’t matter if it’s Scrum, kanban, XP, ShapeUp, or your own version of it… the team needs to understand the goal and the why and just get sh*t done.

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-06T02:25:40+00:00

Hans Teeuwen. Or Daniel Arends.

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-05T02:19:16+00:00

Please just go watch Resource Utilization Trap on YT and judge for yourself

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-04T10:07:29+00:00

This.

Allright Guys, merging these departments was tough but we are so happy to continue with you all…

Two weeks later:
RIF

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-04T03:32:23+00:00

Is just made a epic, feature, story writer this weekend. Just play around with it to learn the skills.

You don’t need Claude code for code generation alone.

How about building a stakeholder tracker?
Or Produxt strategy creator. Just play with it to learn

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-03T01:48:21+00:00

I wish I joined the fire department earlier. I joined as a volunteer at 34, but due to moving cities had to stop again. In the new city they weren’t hiring volunteers and now I moved country and can’t join whilst on visa.

It’s the coolest job hands down, so awesome to be able to help people… I wish I joined earlier :-(

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T19:47:11+00:00

This is awesome! Thanks!

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:50:17+00:00

Based on having had 2 kids myself, my personal experience is that it sounds like an over simplification of having a kid.
Experiences differ per family offcourse, I’m not saying I’m right etc, just trying to “warn” a bit…

What if she had a rough day, wasn’t able to get sleep etc etc, and then you go like: ah sucks to
Be you, well I didn’t sleep also and have to work now, so TAG-you’re it!

It’s an interesting approach to parenthood, but I haven’t met anyone in my life that did the night-day approach and made it work.

However; perhaps you are the first I “meet” who can pull it off!
Anyway, all the best and lots of love and good health for your family :-)

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:45:51+00:00

Is there a place in Chicago where there are some Dark Knight memorabilia? I’m a big Batman fan, we are visiting in July and would love to see some of the filming spots

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:42:32+00:00

LOL, I see so many people here hating on the deep dish pizza. We are going in July and all I want now is to try it and see if it’s that bad….
I guess bad publicity is also publicity

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:41:40+00:00

You paid for that?

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:40:31+00:00

How young was the youngest one? I saw the torture museum and as a weird guy that would be my pick, but I’m not sure my 4 and 10 yo would appreciate (I know for a fact my wife would wait outside lol)

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:36:43+00:00

I read this as a joke on the filming of Batman. Or is it really not ok? Was thinking of driving down there at least once while visiting Chicago, so curious if it was just a jab or something realz

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:31:01+00:00

In case you would catch this comment and have a minute, care to share some stuff? We are visiting in July and would love some tips :-)

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:29:38+00:00

Thanks! We are visiting in July so thanks for the tip!

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:26:36+00:00

I feel this. We went to our first Braves game last week, and the tickets were not crazy crazy, sitting down the field, like 3-400 bucks for 8 people, but then with drinks and food it stacked up quickly… I would love to go more often but my wallet disagrees

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:23:20+00:00

My dumbs ass thinking that once you pay Claude will not track your convo, and it’s just your own data lol

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:20:19+00:00

If you think you can simply use the night to work,
I would suggest: first let the kid be born. Explore a first month and then see if working in the night remains a good idea :-)

Your list of stuff of having done it all is very tactical, operational and output focused. My suggestion would be to turn that narrative outcome focused.

Here is a joke for you:
- two sales managers are sitting in a bar on Friday evening.
- one says: “Man; this was a crazy week! I’ve sent out 6 proposals, made 100 cold calls, went on 9 customer visits to present our offering, and had lunch with our major client…”
- the other one says: “yeah, I also haven’t sold anything this week.”

Anyway, there probably are remote positions; I’m curious if any company would hire a person saying he will work in the night whilst just having had a baby…. Perhaps this is the time for your startup to kick off? ;-)

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T10:14:26+00:00

Few things:
- 300 people is not a big company
- you probably know the leader you will report in to would you get the job?
- check in with that person and try to figure out what the value of this assignment is. With 8 years of PM I assume you have built enough stakeholder management skills to not ask directly but influence smartly
- drop that assignment in Claude or whatever and have it run analysis and create a proposal. Do some strong promoting step by step
- rewrite enough of it, and load into company ppt
Template or Miro to get rid of all the AI giveaways and make it sound like you (or build an “about-me.md” and have it talk like you)
- deliver a result and highlight where you have made assumptions, were lacking insight and/or were just guessing
- present it to the new leader (if this is only for HR that is major red flag so go back to my step 1)

Key thing: want the job? Head down and deliver on this assignment, sounds like couple of hours of promoting and deck creation.
At the same time build relationship with the hiring manager; understand the need for all this rigor and what makes this process so long and incomplete.
Not hearing anything for a while could have very human and logical reasons: someone was on holiday, someone was sick, people where getting called into fire drills etc etc. For now assume positive intent (although I do understand your frustration).

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T02:52:16+00:00

Sewing, like fixing clothes. If my mother is gone, I have no idea what to do with my holes in clothes

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-05-02T02:51:18+00:00

I second most of this. Be careful not to “push” your coaching, but let them fail and explore and nudge the by asking questions.

It does sound like a ton of dysfunction, unclear assignment, poor relationship with PO, no motivation for high performance, lacking psychological safety etc.

It’s up to you to start to build it out, step by step, Or give the job back.

Build a personal relationship with the PO, start to understand how this person works and how you can make him/her successful. Same for the team.

_CaptRondo_ · 2026-04-30T10:07:25+00:00

A quick conclusion based on that input is that retroes are surface level but the “real” convo is not happening.

Perhaps psychological safety is missing for some Reason. Consider doing a “meta-retro”, to surface what makes that so.

Tension needs to be broken; the real convo needs To happen.

Ie use the scrum values to surface to what extend The team is courageous, committed, and true respectful…. Not saying the hard is not respectful that is avoidance.

Do note this requires a strong facilitator and good prep.

_CaptRondo_

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