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How I landed a PM role in Cybersecurity, thanks to (also) this home assignment

March 22, 2023 - 3340 words - 17 mins
Back in 2021, I switched from my Product Manager ("PM") job in the Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) market to a PM job in Cybersecurity. Below I discuss why I changed industry, why Cybersecurity, what was the overall hiring process, and more interestingly the home assignment I f… read more

Thoughts on bugs reporting

March 03, 2023 - 2714 words - 14 mins
This post deals with something I wanted to write down for future reference. Nothing fancy, really, but it helps when it is put down in a central place I can refer people to later. 😇 Not per se a product management topic, but it relates in one of its aspects: how to collect feedback when it comes to … read more

How to avoid useless meeting — and look smart

April 12, 2021 - 496 words - 3 mins
I figured out a way to kill some useless meetings, in a smart and helpful way. Don't get me wrong: meetings are not intrinsically bad per se. Yes, they can even be useful sometimes. But the other ones are not only useless, but also a true waste of time, which is directly proportional to the number o… read more

Meeting invitations, done right

April 10, 2021 - 370 words - 2 mins
How to make sure people will happily accept your meeting invitations? I realised there is a type of invitation where one feels comfortable to accept it, because it seems worth to attend. And if you set up meetings yourself, you certainly want your invitation to be of this type, because otherwise: pe… read more