Author: Brian Peck

Scrum is a methodology designed to help product teams produce better products. Often times, you hear Scrum and Agile used interchangeably, but that’s not the correct way to think about. Agile is a philosophy that contains a set of principles or beliefs to produce working software. Scrum is how you create products using the Agile… Continue reading Scrum

Product Manager The product manager role is vital to the routine delivery of successful products to market, yet it’s a role that doesn’t exist in many organizations. Technically, the product manager doesn’t have any output they can point to in order to show what they’ve done, however, they are the vision for the product. They… Continue reading Makeup of a Product Team

One of the essential functions a product manager at any level must perform is the creation of a product roadmap. This sets the direction of the product for all stakeholders involved. When clients ask if they can have ‘xyz’ feature, the product manager gets to say yes/no based on the roadmap. When sales asks what… Continue reading Creating a Product Roadmap

We live in a world with more content available in quick Google search than could ever be consumed. Glass half full view on this is its never been easier to learn, and learn quickly! Glass half empty view looks at it differently, saying its never been harder to find resources you can trust. So much… Continue reading Resources for a PM

Learning something new is simultaneously exciting and scary. By definition, there’s a lot of unknown. Depending on your personality and the task at hand, you may naturally lean more one way or the other on the exciting vs scary spectrum. I know for myself, the idea of learning is always exciting, and the actual process… Continue reading Learning New Tech

Like eating healthily, exercising, and practicing financial constraint, setting healthy boundaries is one of those things that isn’t fun, but it sets you up for success. This blog post is going to be a little different in the fact that it doesn’t focus on technical subject matter, however, it does relate to my portfolio project… Continue reading Setting Healthy Boundaries

The world is increasingly going digital, with the internet reaching even the most remote places on our planet. While expanded access has helped improve the lives of millions, with the good comes the bad. There are individuals, organizations, and even nations that use the power of the internet with bad intentions, so it should come… Continue reading Code Red

I’m one class away from graduating with a computer science degree, and I don’t want to code for a living. It may be fair to ask, are you nuts? The huge salaries, the opportunity to make an impact on software used by millions, the respect you get from peers, the free office snacks. THE FREE… Continue reading So, You Don’t Want to Code?