I’m Jennie.
Product leader, seasoned manager, hobbyist writer, executive leader, and generally nice human being.
Recent Blog Posts:
It Depends
Early in my career, I moved into a new company as the only product leader for the engineering, network, and desktop support teams. I went from having 2 direct reports to (eventually as I rebuilt the team) 21 and department head responsibilities. Knowing I was going into a leadership position with a team that had…
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 