I’m Jennie.
Product leader, seasoned manager, hobbyist writer, executive leader, and generally nice human being.
Recent Blog Posts:
Accidental Market Debt: When the Market Moves and You Don’t
Have you ever worked for a company that one day woke up to realize that it was no longer competitive in its market? I have. It’s surprisingly common. It’s also a sign of accidental market-based product debt. This is the thing about talking about debt. It too often becomes a conversation simply about rot, a…
Consuming Endangered Pachyderms: A Product Perspective on Tech Debt
In every team I have worked with I have had a conversation with someone (evenly spread between leadership, business stakeholders, engineers, and product) that went something like this: Them: We have so much tech debt. We will never achieve [initiative A] as long as we are dealing with [clunky old system]. Me: Help me understand…
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…
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 