Articles

2 de September, 2018

Mentoring

Few weeks ago Débora Alcântara asked entrepreneurs here at Linkedin what person would they choose as a mentor if they could pick anyone in the world. I was flattered […]
28 de August, 2018

New book

Back in March I was invited by Dan, Marcell and Bruno to be part of a very interesting project they were initiating called PM3, an online product management course in Portuguese […]
1 de May, 2018

How does a product manager gain more autonomy?

Producto.io is a community of professionals who work with digital products. It is maintained by Arthur Castro , Raphael Farinazzo , Marcell Almeida , Éfrem Filho and Thiago Diniz, a group of seasoned product managers quite […]
20 de September, 2016

Don’t waste time looking for culprits

As promised I’m starting a series of articles on company culture and how it can affect the quality of your product and service. Here’s the first article. When […]
14 de November, 2013

Go Sell!

I constantly interact with startups. With some, it’s a one-off conversation — after a talk I give or during a mentoring session in an acceleration program […]
10 de June, 2008

Top 10 Agile Team Management Practices

Mike Griffiths from Leading Answers just wrote an interesting post where he explains the top 10 team practices for managing an agile team: Empower them Listen […]
1 de June, 2008

What’s the ideal sprint length? Part II

I already talked about this issue previously, but I recently read a post about the same topic at InfoQ that brings more insights to the question: […]
27 de May, 2008

Being a PM is an exercise of leadership

In a recent post at schmula, the author mentions: Gary Convis was recently brought in to be the CEO of Dana Corporation (DAN), an $8.7 Billion […]
26 de April, 2008

What changes for a manager in a team moving into agile?

In a traditional environment, a technical team manager is responsible for prioritization, task distribution and progress control, among other non-technical responsibilities such as people management, new […]