Tech Strategy & Product

Why are there 1.2 million people in this bowl? Also 40k product managers apparently. We got some aggressive title inflation

**DEDMAS (Deduct Operational Entropy Management System)** is an AI-driven cloud governance framework built on AWS using Amazon Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and Python. It autonomously di...

Built a PowerShell WPF app for Active Directory audits and published it on GitHub. AD User Export & Audit helps with user reviews and leaver audits by exporting active/disabled users, filtering by OU...

I lead digital strategy for a specific business unit within my company. We use third-party software as well as custom developed apps. I oversee product and engineering teams. With the advancement of ...

I recently launched an e-commerce website focused on fashion and lifestyle products. One of the biggest challenges has been building trust with new customers and competing against established brands. ...

Ex-McKinsey EM, week 1 as a Director at a SaaS company. My hiring manager was let go before I started, my projects got absorbed by a peer who won't hand them off, the SVP is hands off, and a new VP jo...

Are labor market tests successful these days for PERM in big tech?

I'm a program manager & want to expand my career surface area by becoming more technical. Many people say technical program managers don't need to know how to code, but need to understand it. I'm try...

Managing a team while still doing a chunk of individual contributor work because of staffing gaps is getting old fast. It feels like two roles with no clear line between them. At what point do you sto...

I’m early in my career and trying to decide whether to specialize in one area like cloud or stay broad across different strategy projects. Right now I touch a bit of everything but don’t go deep anywh...

I’ve been offered a path into Product Manager, but I’d be giving up the part I’m strongest in which is data and analysis. It feels like starting over in a different skill set. Do you take that kind of...

I’m 2 years in and starting to feel like I’m mostly executing on other people’s ideas instead of actually shaping direction. My manager says strategy comes with time, but I don’t see when that shift h...

I’m being told I need to be more strategic to move up, but most of my time is still spent on sprint work and unblocking the team. If I step back from that, things slow down and it reflects on me. How ...

Anyone have any insight into WLB for Principal Product Manager (IC5) roles at Microsoft ? I expect it’s going to vary but curious to get different perspectives

Leadership asked me to recommend whether we should build a capability in-house or buy a vendor solution, and I know whichever option I choose will upset one group internally. The build option helps lo...

I’m being asked to build a 2-year roadmap, but priorities have already shifted 3 times in the last 6 weeks depending on which exec is involved. It feels like anything I produce will be outdated quickl...

Customer interviews say one thing, usage data shows another, and both sides feel confident in their interpretation. The team is split on which direction to follow for the next iteration. When qualitat...

We have 3 dashboards showing slightly different versions of the same metric, and leadership debates which one is “right” every week instead of making decisions. Each dashboard is owned by a different ...

We launched a feature 3 months ago that leadership pushed hard, but adoption is sitting under 10% and sales rarely mentions it. Everyone still talks about it like a success because of how visible the ...

I am on a project where the client keeps asking for a long-term roadmap, but internally they still change priorities every week depending on who spoke loudest in the last meeting. It feels impossible ...