Greger's rantings on making great products
The post explains how to set up a personal AI agent using Claude Desktop or an AWS server, detailing its capabilities like managing emails, tasks, and calendars. It emphasizes ease of use, customization, and accessibility, while providing instructions through a GitHub repository. The author shares their personal setup, encouraging others to create their own.
Trying to use ChatGPT or Claude memory and get strange answers because something in the memories set the AI off on the wrong course? Use multiple AI services and very different memories across? Want to be able to control when and what the AI uses when doing the work? Have a curated set of context […]
This post summarizes key learnings from scaling a product engineering organization, focusing on a coherent product operating model governed by six dimensions. The author underscores the importance of understanding customer value, making informed product priority decisions, and fostering effective communication within teams. Successful product development hinges on continuous iteration and adapting…
Learning #3 in the Cognite scale-up series highlights the delicate balance between optimizing for immediate velocity and long-term scalability. Iterative learning underpinned by structured processes is key to managing constant change. As startups grow, roles become more defined, requiring a fine balance to avoid stifling innovation with excessive structure. Customer value, managed dependencies,…
Learning #2: Build Processes and Culture for Continuous Change In the previous article in this series, I covered learning #1- Always Be On Your Way. I wrote about how easy it is to get stuck in “how things should be done” instead of focusing on the unique challenges you have here and now. In my […]
I was almost ready with the third article in the series on learnings from the last two years at Cognite, when Brian Chesky and Marty Cagan made me pause and instead write this post. Marty Cagan is one of a handful of thought leaders that have had a profound impact on my thinking and practice. […]
Cognite has experienced significant growth and learned valuable lessons about product organization. Key insights include the importance of journeying towards an ideal organization, balancing velocity and scale, and requiring a unified operating model. The company stresses solving current problems rather than debate ideal methods. Their experience highlights that successful product organization…
Follow me on Twitter/X @GregerWedel Back two years ago, I wrote a blog post on the principles and biggest pitfalls of scaling a product organization charged to build a unified and complex product. Naturally, being employed at Cognite, what I had in mind was the Cognite Data Fusion platform product and its ~280 people product […]
Flutter is a cross-platform UI framework using the Dart language. Since 2018, it has exploded in use and navigating the eco-system gets more and more challenging (but it makes also Flutter a more useful eco-system for professionals). Using a well-built starter app can help you make the right choices from day 1 and support you […]
There is plenty of good product management literature out there, but if you want to scale a large product engineering organisation, you mostly find the agile scaling frameworks. One of the most visible advocates for building innovative high-tech products that delight customers, Marty Cagan, slashed out at these frameworks in June 2021 offering little hope […]