Below are some of my notes and insights from Prof Simon Burton’s presentation, Safety Under Uncertainty (youtube, slides). This presentation was part of the Safety Critical System’s Club Seminar titled Safe Autonomous Transport – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The notes below represent my current perspective on the role of a technical program manager and the behaviors of the most successful PMs. A strong leader has the humility to listen, the confidence to challenge, and the wisdom to know when to quit arguing and to get onboard. Role of the PM The purpose of […]
The time of senior leadership on a team is precious and expensive but so is the cost of poor decision making and inefficient execution due to misalignment between teams. The Engineering organization I support runs a 50 minute sync every two weeks to provide status updates, escalate issues, and review business updates that may impact […]
John Cutler’s “Data-Informed Product Cycle” resonates with me as a depiction of a strong product development process. In the post, he says, The most successful teams 1. Have a strategy 2. Translate that into models 3. Add minimally viable measurement 4. Identify leverage points 5. Explore options 6. Run experiments He provides the image below […]
Modern product management experience is highly influenced by and optimized for purely software based products. While core principals translate well to products involving a combination of hardware and software, there are some unique considerations to be aware of when managing robotics products.
I recently watched the session, “Reality Check: Getting to Scale” presented by John Simmons, Head of Product, InOrbit at the Robot Operations Conference. The talk was focused on John’s experiences in Operations at Bossa Nova and the lessons they learned as they scaled the robot fleet from 5-350 units. Bossa Nova manufactures inventory control robots […]
I was in a meeting with several of my peers today and someone was looking for feedback regarding gantt chart tools. They were frustrated that the current tooling they were using was fairly rigid and not easy to manipulate live during a working meeting. They wanted to be able to add and remove items, adjust […]
Below are some of my key takeaways from reading the book, Escaping The Build Trap, by Melissa Perri. If you are interested in more detailed notes from this book, they are available here.
Below are some of my key takeaways from reading the book, Thinking in Systems, by Donella H. Meadows. If you are interested in more detailed notes from this book, they are available here.
In 2020, I was given the opportunity to lead the Product team at Ouster. This post details the process and framework I used to define the core functions of the team and figure out where to start. Ouster’s core business is the design and manufacture of high-resolution lidar sensors supporting a wide variety of robotics […]