Articles

2 Sep 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 Aug 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 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 Sep 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 Nov 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 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 Apr 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 […]