Chris Butler
@chrizbot
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Chaotic good product manager
Oakland, CA
Joined March 2007
My talk from #ixd19 "Using randomness to break down biases" is now online. I talk about crazy eights, @OblStrats, @trytriggers, and product tarot readings. Part of #adversarial #prodmgmt.
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3-8 February 2019 Seattle, United States
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I'd argue we should generate leadership personas from more intimate meeting transcripts. It will get much closer to the real thing. This avoids blindspots and less ideal characteristics that are real. The leader could still offer commentary on why they are like that.
Every leader should create a "how to work with me" guide. This one from Keith Yandell at DoorDash is great.
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I LOVED this book when I was a kid.
💾🖥️📖 Inside the Personal Computer: An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions: A Pop-Up Guide. Text by Sharon Gallagher. Paper engineering and design by Ron van der Meer (1984). Posting this and more as we get our #retrocomputing series ready for next month!
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💾🖥️📖 Inside the Personal Computer: An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions: A Pop-Up Guide. Text by Sharon Gallagher. Paper engineering and design by Ron van der Meer (1984). Posting this and more as we get our #retrocomputing series ready for next month!
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A completely packed room for a controversial take from the Chaotic Good Product Manager at GitHub - @chrizbot "Product operations in the real world: meetings are good, actually" At #Agile2024
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As a… – user I want… – AI in every product so that… –
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I've been thinking a lot about how much PM might change with tools like ChatGPT, GitHub's Copilot, and others. I'll give a few thoughts on how we might be in a better place as PMs with the technologies and hear stories from people already trying it out. RSVP below!
How is AI transforming product management? Join @chrizbot, Staff Product Operations Manager at @github to explore this question with other senior leaders on May 22nd at 12pm PT RSVP: https://t.co/qfzJLqGB20
#peerlearning #leaders #productmanagement #AI #leadership
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This is a practice I’m really excited about and contributed to the soon to be updated PAIR guidebook when I was at Google. I want to share with you the way it has changed how I specify behavior for AI/ML products.
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I’m really excited about this talk because I think it changes the way we have discussions between technical and non-technical people for AI/ML products. We have always had to find some common language to discuss and I think the design policies are a key way to do that.
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In this talk, I’ll give you tips on how to use design policies with your teams the next day. I’ll also be answering questions you have about the methodology in your context.
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Next week I’m hosting a free lightning session about how you can use design policies (originated from the PAIR team at Google) to create usable guardrails and specifications. It is no longer about creating detailed PRDs but defining what is good, bad, and acceptable.
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Are you struggling as a product manager, designer or engineering manager to create functional specifications for AI/ML projects? I used to struggle with the appropriate way to do this when I was at Facebook Reality Labs and Google...
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Excited to be part of this curriculum!
BIG NEWS: Today, Maven is launching "Build with AI”: a modern AI curriculum taught by experts from GitHub, OpenAI, Google, and Hugging Face. We spent months interviewing AI leaders to decide who and what to include. The focus was on engineering, data, and product because those
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"You either die an enterprise startup or you live long enough to see yourself become Jira."
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What happens after the apocalypse but your badge keeps working? A new short fiction piece by me just got published by Roadmap Magazine. I was honored to have this published there. Thanks to Molly McArdle for the amazing editing. This piece 10x better with their help!
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The "meetings are a waste of time" stance is just as bad as "everyone needs to be in the office." I've had great to horrible meetings. The best ones were planned, got something done, allowed real discussion, and led to something else. Meetings are good, actually.
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When creating something new we need "just enough" confusion in the process to consider something new. In this post I talk about how we can do that in product management with new tools that are becoming available like LLMs. https://t.co/HeZX0opUUu
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Using randomness and confusion to reframe problems and their possible solutions
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I got the opportunity to share @Management30's Delegation Poker Cards, @nearfuturelab's Work Kit for Design Fiction, @WorkNOBL's The Decider app, and the @flipper_zero. And I got to shill @UncertaintyProj.
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Some questions I try to answer in the discussion: How do we expose misalignment or disagreement? What is "enough confusion?" How do we decide how to decide? Why can't I have John Conner's ATM thing from Terminator 2?
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I've been a long time fan of @kevin2kelly's work and I was so excited to be invited to be on the @cooltools podcast! I have the huge Cool Tool's book in my bookcase and a stack of Wired issue 1 in my basement. Check it out! https://t.co/HthvpPoVGb
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