Chris Dermody

3 critical questions for company alignment

Three simple questions that can be very difficult to answer, but are critical for company alignment.

Essential qualities of a Product Manager

What are the essential qualities of a product manager? Here's 5 of mine.

Flipdish just reached unicorn status. I’ve learned A LOT. Here are 5 features that I’ll be building in my future products from the start

Three years ago I joined Flipdish as their first Product Manager. Back then it was a startup that had found product market fit and just needed to execute quickly and grow. I had product experience, but I think the kicker that got me the job was that I built my

Best practices for audit logging in a SAAS business/application

This post is a note to my future self for the next project I want to build. There doesn't seem to be any great resources out there for this, so I thought I'd share my thoughts publicly. If you're asking yourself "do I

Biggest challenge facing Flipdish's product team

This is post 2/2 of my responses to a curious aspiring Product Manager who reached out to me on Linkedin. Valerio wanted to know: 1. What do you like most about your role? 2. What is the biggest challenge your product management team is facing right now? See below

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