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
Jason has a consultancy that’s quite cool. They do both product development as well as product strategy, process consulting, and the like. He’s got a cool office space, and he’s been jamming on starting a PM meetup there.<\/p>\n
We talked a lot about what’s valuable in those meetups, and this is a topic I’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… and neither is readily available.<\/p>\n
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
Jason and I talked about this a lot, and how to pull it off. Hopefully there are some really good ideas that he’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":"
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