I’m Jennie.
Product leader, seasoned manager, hobbyist writer, executive leader, and generally nice human being.
Recent Blog Posts:
Leadership Styles within Complexity
Recently, I was chatting with a friend of mine who is head of operations at an agency. We were discussing our different leadership strategies and how we deal with different kinds of complexity in our very different environments and job types. I told her I had to turn that conversation into a blog post, and…
Moats, Models, and the AI Stress Test
AI is fundamentally changing the landscape of software development. There are risks to the business models and monetization structures behind the companies building the AI superstructures. There are also fundamental changes to the way we build software and that increased speed of delivery shifting the conversations engineering, product, and the business need to have (which…
AI Technology is Interesting; the market conditions can’t persist
Large market disruptions and technological advances have gone hand-in-hand for as long as I can remember. We have seen massive changes in market fundamentals after the emergence of the Internet. In 2008, the implosion of the financial markets and OEMs, particularly in housing industry, occurred simultaneously with the emergence of APIs that dramatically changed the…
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 