I’m Jennie.
Product leader, seasoned manager, hobbyist writer, executive leader, and generally nice human being.
Recent Blog Posts:
AI in the Wild: Observations of how “Normal” People are Adopting AI
The other day my book club (the book was Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller, highly recommend) descended into a discussion of AI. It was an interesting group. I was the only person there who works in tech. Most of the rest of the group was teachers, white collar professionals, and consultants. All medium…
Questions Before Answers
Questions Before Answers Usually on my desk, prominently displayed beneath my computer monitors, there is a bright purple index card with the words “Questions before Answers” written in my best fancy script. I have currently misplaced it and need to make a new one. I feel it’s absence. After one particularly intense meeting with a…
ICP Explainer pt 2: Build Their Dreams
One of my favorite product tools, especially when talking to non-product folks, is the Ideal Customer Profile. That is because it finds that perfect overlap between the deep history of targeted marketing and easy to understand explain metaphors. Too often when I am talking to business leaders, senior engineers, or customer support staff the theory…
Recent Conference Talks:
- The Interview Lab, CodeMash 2023, KCDC 2024
- The First League Out From Land: Steering Through a Project to Product Transformation, TAI ITLI Cohort March 2024
- Finding your motivations, CodeMash 2024
- Estimates are Evil, KCDC 2023
- GDPRs, & PCI-DSSs, & HIPAAs, Oh My: Untangling Compliance So You Don’t Get Scared, CodeMash 2023
- Consuming Endangered Pachyderms: A Product View of Debt – KCDC 2021, CodeMash 2023
- Build Things People Want – THAT Conference 2021, KCDC 2022
Topics and Skills
- Product leadership and strategic planning
- Product/market fit
- Workshops and collaborative goal setting
- Software product development lifecycle management
- Project management
- Business analysis
- Customer and business needs assessment
- Product roadmaps and release schedules
- Domain Driven Design
- Product presentations and thought leadership
- Team building and leadership
Jennie Ocken 