Overview


Personal thoughts on product management, useful tools, and other things I find interesting

Welcome! This is the website for Kevin Yuan (Sr. Product Manager)

  • Awful Project Governance

    This was intended to be a humorous account of awful project governance. I am a connoisseur of horror stories related to delivery and execution in the workplace. My favourite one is when the program manager brought the business analyst’s laptop to the hospital – where the business analyst was bedridden... [Read More]
  • Ken Rudin on Myths of Product Led Growth

    Gainsight kicked off their November 2021 Pulse for Product event with a great keynote on Product Led Growth (PLG). It was presented by Ken Rudin, SVP of User Growth @ ThoughtSpot. He transformed the company from traditional enterprise B2B to PLG. [Read More]
  • Gibson Biddle's DHM framework

    I had the pleasure of attending several in-person and virtual talks by Gibson Biddle, former VP/CPO at Netflix/Chegg.  He is now a prolific speaker, so much that you will frequently see his name listed in popular product communities and company events.  And if you missed one of this live speaking... [Read More]
  • Playing to Win

    Annual planning is usually around the corner this time of year. I find that this is most common for product teams in large organizations that follow an annual financial planning model. May→ kick-off. June → create list. July → do business cases and stack ranking. Aug → negotiate the list.... [Read More]
  • Thoughts on Product Operations

    I was recently hired to be the Lead of Product Operations at Sonatype. It turns out that all my training has led me to this emerging new role. So new that nobody really has a clear understanding of it (same can be said of the product manager role, depending on... [Read More]