Chris Dermody

How to test Product Managers for technical ability

Product Managers should have a basic technical ability. Testing for that ability is critical when hiring Product Managers, here's how to do that

How to deal with annoying customers as a Product Manager

As a Product Manager, it can be an absolute pain when your Success team, Sales team, or Support team come to you yet again with another complaint or feature request from a known loud customer. "let me guess, it's customerA threatening to churn again, yeah? Ugh what

Snoostickers.com - print your snoovatar on anything

snoostickers.com - The end result. A few weeks back, my girlfriend showed me the Snoovatar she built. I laughed because it was exactly like her in real life, down to the shoe colour. Immediately, I wanted it as a sticker. Snoovatars are Reddit's version of Avatars that

Deploying a static website to a Digitalocean droplet

This is one of those posts that I'm making purely for my own selfish reasons. I have nowhere better to store this information other than my blog, and it's easy to search so, why not. In this post I'll help out my future self

Hire Product before you need it

Cover photo by Bogomil Mihaylov on Unsplash You can spin up a contracting dev team in a matter of weeks, or sometimes in a matter of days. Within a week or two they can be familiar with your team's workflows, and pushing stuff to Production. But, having good

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