Writing

Essays on AI, enterprise technology, and software leadership.

Essays

Working with Robert

· 3 min read

A short guide to how I think and work — meetings, email, product management fundamentals, KANBAN, North Star, the Popper problem-solving model, and when I bias toward action versus deferred commitment.

Digital Workplace and AI Future

· 4 min read

The objections I hear today about AI-powered workplace tools sound remarkably like the ones I heard about cloud-first workplace tech in the early 2010s. A pattern.

Enterprise Product Management Coaching: The Assessment Framework

· 4 min read

If you aren't assessing your product managers, you aren't developing them. A three-pillar framework — product, process, people — for coaching PMs in enterprise environments.

The Four Questions of Product Management in Enterprise IT

· 5 min read

Marty Cagan's four questions — value, usability, feasibility, viability — still work when your customers sit three floors above you. But how you answer them changes.

The Dark Side of Innovation

· 8 min read

The sunshine being sold to us says innovation is a panacea. It isn't. On the difficult, unglamorous work of actually building an innovative culture.

5 Lessons on Leadership from the Dungeon Master's Table

· 13 min read

Everything I learned about leadership, I learned from D&D. Five lessons from years behind the Dungeon Master's screen.