Justin Makeig
@featurebacklog
Product Manager on Spanner at Google Cloud. Web and data nerd.
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How I describe Product Management outside of tech: “Explain to Engineers the problems that people are willing to pay for software to solve.”
It’s time to say it out loud: BUILD LESS SOFTWARE Centering too much on adding new functionality will break your product, your users, and your team. Maybe your business. 1/10
Five years ago today Cloud Spanner launched in preview. No wonder my wife was asking if we’re doing anything special tonight.
The most important lesson from @danolsen’s book, The Lean Product Playbook, is the idea of problem space and solution space. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲. Here’s how to do it. Thread 🧵 👇 1/
Someone please show the PowerPoint team.
From now on, you can now resize anything in Excalidraw. via @dai_shi Try it out excalidraw.com/#json=54300967…
“A quick hello + do you like bananas?” is a subject line that will get me to open your email, but only to confirm my disdain for the audacity of the phoned-in clickbait.
Interactively debug JavaScript in MarkLogic with the latest version of the MarkLogic extension for VS @code. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…
Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me? Me: Sure, let me just: SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists
I made adjustments to my lighting setup and WOW! I was getting a bunch of small things wrong, and a few tweaks made an enormous difference! huge thanks to @_matthewhoward_ for helping me tweak my settings last night 💜
Kid: I want a really difficult puzzle for my birthday Me:
Balsamiq 4 is out. Notably it’s a native Mac app now, no longer based on Adobe Air. blog.balsamiq.com/wireframes-for…
“Data centers cost way more than hardware, power, bandwidth, cooling, etc. There’s the human time; engineers aren’t cheap. More insidiously, the cost inherent to the loss-of-focus is incalculable.” @QuinnyPig
Always fun to look at App Store rankings during Christmas to see what technology was most gifted. Sadly, this marks another year where it seems very few people got enterprise software licenses.
The Socratic Method for requirements refinement: Start with some high-level outcomes and use interactive questioning among the implementation team to fill in details and identify assumptions from the user’s perspective.
Wait, I thought XML configuration was bad.
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I know your product's a Swiss army knife but have you considered the possibility you'd make more money selling it as a can opener?
We have spent decades getting engineers used to developing thru the lens of their test suite. Now we just need to expand that a smidge...and develop thru the lens of their instrumentation in production. Build for reality, not a simulacrum.
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