I’m Jennie.
Product leader, seasoned manager, hobbyist writer, executive leader, and generally nice human being.
Recent Blog Posts:
Innovation and the 3 Horizons Model
I was recently talking to a business owner in the classic conundrum of anyone who has built their own business. He had a lot of ideas of where to take his business next, with several different innovative offerings laid out before him but no good way to understand what would be exciting growth and what…
Intentional Market Debt: Neglecting Your Way to Success
“We have to choose between these features and this needed upgrade to .Net Core” “Competitors just released a new feature and our customers are now asking when we will have it too.” “Our OWASP scan says we have these security risks” “We have become dominate in this market so we should explore what opportunities there…
Accidental Individual Debt: How “I don’t know” Becomes “we have no plan”
I once had a conversation with another product manager which went something like this: We all have blind spots. And there are symptoms of these blind spots we can see in daily life: dead letter queues that never get resolved, manual reviews of file movements, insufficient monitoring or logging, poor audit trails. These are all…
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 