“I hate Biden and I hate Trump.” I’m sure we’ve heard this position from tons of people not liking either party’s representative. For generations, having a top government job was coveted. It has now completely reversed where it would seem absolutely insane to get into politics. Why make less money…

Agile. CICD. User Centered Design. Product Roadmap. AI. Big Data. TDD. To those on the outside looking in, the software industry seems to be full of buzzwords. Further exacerbating this perception, the terms used to describe careers in this industry can seem like synonyms to the average individual. For instance…

Let’s go back to the early days so I can set the scene. It was early March 2020, work from home was indefinite, I can only facetime my friends to hangout and going out in public was basically a sin. Like other people, I was looking to use this time…

As part of my new nightly task of Understanding Tech as a PM, I accidently dove into the data scientist topic. While at work today, a good portion of my day was focused on analytics to report up trends based on some custom analytics built for our products. In my…

Chess is the sleeping giant of the sports/entertainment world. Do I feel a new trend brewing? This one came out of left field entirely. I could be totally wrong on this but it looks like Chess is taking over main stream sports (or is it a sport?). Okay, that’s a…

As discussed in my previous blog “Understanding Tech As a PM… My New Hobby?”, my mission is to understand tech as a non technical product manager in the software space. I have been given the advice for quite some time to stay informed of what is going on in the…

Hello fellow PMs, new PMs, tech people, friends etc., My name is Alex and I’m currently a product manager building software. I’m sitting here today thinking of a new hobby I can do while I’m snuggling up for winter at home after I work my 9–5 (not so 9–5) job…