What Building a Pile of Small AI Projects Taught Me About the PM Job
The tools let me build things I never could have built alone. What surprised me is which parts of the product job got more important, not less.
How Claude Updates the Backlog on My Team of One
Last month I wrote about how a PM ships software without an engineering team. The short version: Claude Code closed the gap between an idea and a running product, so I could spend my time on the parts of the…
How a PM Ships Software Without an Engineering Team
For most of my career, the gap between an idea and a working product was an engineering team. I'm a product manager. I think in milestones, user stories, and outcomes, not in pull requests. I've always coded and I can…
Managing a Homelab AI Project with Claude Code, Gitea, and the Gitea MCP Server
I am not a software engineer. I think in milestones, user stories, and outcomes. Kim wants a smart garden assistant that tells her when to water and when the blight risk is high. I want to build it. Solo homelab…
How I Would Build the Tableau Connector SDK Today
I spent six years at Tableau turning data connectivity from a centralized engineering bottleneck into a partner ecosystem. We went from about 40 connectors, all built by Tableau engineers, to 120+ in the catalog with partners building their own. The…
The Painless Problem: Why Kibana Runtime Fields Needed an AI Skill, Not Better Docs
When I owned the Runtime Fields authoring experience in Kibana, we shipped a feature that was elegant in concept and brutal in practice. The concept: define fields at query time against an existing data view, no reindex required, perfect for…