3 Ways IBM is Similar to a Startup
I recently gave a talk at HubSpot about the product development process at IBM. I figured that there were lessons the engineers and product managers at HubSpot could learn from the way IBM makes...
View ArticleHonesty in Managing My Career
I’ve been particularly introspective recently about my career the past few weeks. October just wrapped up. That means we’ve emerged from user conference season. This is the first time in quite a few...
View ArticleGiving up Multi-Tasking in 2011 (and other resolutions)
One of the things that bothers me (especially as a degenerate sports fan) is when folks make public predictions, but then never really follow through on assessing those predictions. So as I set out to...
View ArticleA Former IBMer on Gerstner’s “Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance”
Over New Year’s I read Lou Gerstner’s “Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance”, on the suggestion of Yoav “the bestower of nicknames” Shapira. It was a good read, especially interesting to me as I left IBM 6...
View ArticleThree things I learned this week
While I wait for my daughter to fall asleep so I can go for another ocean side run in Gloucester today, I thought I’d jot down three things I learned this week at work at HubSpot. It was a busy week,...
View ArticleChanging Jobs, Changing Control
I came to HubSpot about 14 months ago. It was a big change for me professionally and personally. At the time of the change, I wrote a bunch of posts on this blog recounting the job search process and...
View Article3 Most Useful Blog Posts Ever
What blog post has been most useful to you? I find myself constantly referencing useful blog posts in my life as a product manager. Not only that, I tend to go back to a few key posts, by a few key...
View ArticleDevOps so easy a 5 year old can do it
Last weekend, I was worried about the operational state of our analytics pipeline at work. For the uninitiated, its basically a series of ‘jobs’ that process records from each page view on our...
View Article4 Lessons Learned Working at HubSpot
After two great years, I left HubSpot last month. I’m not sure what’s next, so don’t expect a forward looking just yet. Right now, I’m focused on taking stock of all the things that I learned from...
View ArticleAnalytical Culture at Small Companies
My first blog post for the InsightSquared blog today was published, Creating a Data Driven Culture. Go check it out and let me know what you think.
View ArticleMy Current Side Project
Hello loyal blog readers, Just a quick post to say that most of my deep thoughts outside of my day job at InsightSquared are being put down in writing at my new side project, Diseer. Head on over and...
View ArticleTaking the leap
To many I’ve talked to recently, this isn’t necessarily news . . . but about 7 weeks ago I left my very, very good job as a product manager at InsightSquared. InsightSquared is doing really well. And I...
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