Todd Birchard: Engineering, Product, Technology.

@ToddRBirchard

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Will Product Go The Way Of Marketing?

High-impact professions attract seekers of success, but is this always a good thing?

Agile Suicide

Agile's unanimous success is the culprit of its own demise.

Defining Your JIRA Project's Issue Schemes

The first step to creating clear team communication in JIRA is utilizing issue types effectively.

Product Management: The Personality Profession

Being a "good PM" may be more of a popularity contest than a measure of effectiveness.

The Art Of Technical Documentation

It's not so much our ideas that consume us, but the ability to explain those ideas to entire teams of people.

The Ruin Of Feeling Powerless

Being powerless in its most crushing state is not an instant switch, but rather a series of memory leaks which happen undetected over time.

How To Interview Product Managers

Hiring the right PM is hard. Be sure to put candidates through the paces to avoid undoing the damage of hiring the wrong person.

Everything Is A Bubble

In the presence of exponential success, it is important to realize that every high has a low. Any booming industry is simply the upside of a sine curve.