Recently someone asked me what my principles are for DevEx. Over the past 15 years shipping products for Heroku, GitHub, and now Vercel, I’ve learned a lot about what developers need to succeed. Still, I’ve never documented the principles I use daily to build developer tools, so I’ve decided to…

GitHub Docs are open source, and you can contribute to the project by visiting the GitHub repo. You’ve probably heard something like this before, “documentation isn’t a priority, can’t we just copy and use what someone else has built and call it done?” Docs are often an after-thought, not only…

This list was originally published on kathy.pm/philosophy, and it’s maintained in a GitHub gist, where it’s updated regularly and you can see how it has evolved over time! Product managers Seek out failure, it teaches us to think like a scientist. If you start with a hypothesis, then try to prove yourself…

There’s a lot of recommended reading for product managers out there. Some of it is incredibly useful, and some of it is a waste of time. Business books don’t really get me excited, but there are a few books, articles, newsletters, and podcasts authored by folks I look up to…

How do you know what to build? The answer to this question, like many others in the Product Manager world, is “it depends.” Knowing what to build starts with preparing to plan what to build. This sounds like pre-planning, which sucks the life out of a software delivery team, so…

Adapted from an original post available here: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/leadership-ci/ Last weekend I spent a few hours with Jess Frazelle. We talked about a lot of things: product, making software, navigating big companies, journalism, and leadership. We learned that we have a lot in common when it comes to how we lead…