Published in The Startup·Dec 14, 2019Member-onlyBook Review: Crossing the ChasmCommentaries and Notes — The vast majority of Product Management related books I come across focus quite heavily on things like ideation, development processes and using quantitative and qualitative user data to test your value hypothesizes. This is, of course, very important when building an IT product, but can sometimes come across as a…Startup7 min readStartup7 min read
Aug 27, 2019Book Review: The Lean StartupCommentaries and Notes — Few if any books have impacted the way the global IT industry organises work and processes in the last decade as much as The Lean Startup. …Lean Startup7 min readLean Startup7 min read
Published in Agile Insider·Jun 7, 2019Four Steps for Developing Successful Product FeaturesBefore I became a Product Manager I spent the first five years of my professional career as a software engineer. For the duration of those years, my focus was mainly on the delivery aspect of software development. Even after I made the transition into a product role, it’s only really…Agile6 min readAgile6 min read
Published in Product Coalition·May 6, 2019What Friedrich Hayek can tell us about Product ManagementReading the “The Use of Knowledge in Society” through a Product Manager lens — Economist Friedrich Hayek is one of the true heavy weights in the Austrian school of economics, and his work garnered him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974. …Economics3 min readEconomics3 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Apr 22, 2019The Product Manager in the Coal MineOn the dynamic nature of the role and the challenges that comes with it — Hidden behind the title of Product Manager is a wide array of different challenges that makes the job vary a lot between companies, and even within the same company. …Product Management4 min readProduct Management4 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Mar 1, 2019I Found 10,000 Ways That Didn’t WorkLearnings from getting my feet wet in a Kaggle competition — The dust settles on the first Kaggle competition I’ve put serious time into and though still quite far from the coveted top spots, I reached the goal I had set out of earning a first medal for my profile page, and even got a silver medal for placing in the…Machine Learning7 min readMachine Learning7 min read
Published in commercetools tech·Feb 25, 2019GraphQL and REST Level 3 (HATEOAS)At commercetools, we’re often asked why we choose to offer GraphQL but not REST Level 3 (HATEOAS). The short answer to this question is that HATEOAS isn’t a good fit for most modern use cases for APIs. That is why after almost 20 years, HATEOAS still hasn’t gained wide adoption…API9 min readAPI9 min read
