Christina Noren (CloudBees)

About this Episode

In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Christina talk about:

• Being born fully-formed from the head of the executive suite (or not)
• Enjoying enabling makers and doers
• Iterating through trials by fire
• Understanding the build-vs-buy dynamic and why open source tools matter
• Our first official dirty secret!
• The particular foibles of product management
• Explicitly re-processing past events to learn more from them
• Tactics for managing impostor syndrome
• Leaning on written communication when your colleagues are distributed
• The classic tensions between product management and engineering
• The role of product management in selling the vision to engineering
• Not being able to dabble
• Funding the cycle of art projects and the joy of the plan

You can find Christina via her initials most places, including cfrln on twitter

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3