{"id":979,"date":"2014-03-05T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T07:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=979"},"modified":"2014-03-05T23:27:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T07:27:34","slug":"creating-a-pm-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/creating-a-pm-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a PM community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I jammed with Jason Monberg today who is a really cool cat who came into my world view through Ian. Jason and Ian worked together at MarkLogic.<\/p>\n<p>Jason has a consultancy that&#8217;s quite cool. They do both product development as well as product strategy, process consulting, and the like. He&#8217;s got a cool office space, and he&#8217;s been jamming on starting a PM meetup there.<\/p>\n<p>We talked a lot about what&#8217;s valuable in those meetups, and this is a topic I&#8217;ve thought about a lot. There is no StackOverflow for product management. Product management is also a lot of things at a lot of places. Finding good templates is hard. Finding tips on actual execution and tactics is tough. Figuring out strategy from insanity requires real mentorship or kinship at times&#8230; and neither is readily available.<\/p>\n<p>Product managers need a community. One where they can trust each other; openly discuss how to better the craft; and ultimately feel less lonely when ganged up on by the world.<\/p>\n<p>Jason and I talked about this a lot, and how to pull it off. Hopefully there are some really good ideas that he&#8217;s got now to run with because if we can pull this off, then I really believe that the craft will take a big leap forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I jammed with Jason Monberg today who is a really cool cat who came into my world view through Ian. Jason and Ian worked together at MarkLogic. Jason has a consultancy that&#8217;s quite cool. They do both product development as well as product strategy, process consulting, and the like. He&#8217;s got a cool office space, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becomingapm","category-builder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAIx-fN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}