Title: Interviews_on_product_management_in_the_web3_open_
Category: Working_Groups

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-05T09:44:49.257Z

Following up on the previous ETHProduct community call (#1 ETHProduct Community Call (Video + Notes) - #6 by pet3rpan), I began to interview various PMs and teams within the web3 community in an attempt to gain a better grasp on the nuances of web3 open source product management vs. web 2.0 PMship.
I tried to learn about the following…

Understand how they are structured and coordinated as a team
Understand how have they improved coordination, what works / doesn’t work
How do the teams make decisions?
How do teams effectively communicate these decisions
How much do ideological aversions influence the method of coordination
What are teams currently trying to improve?
How does your team attempt to diagnose and improve coordination and efficiency?

Initially so far, I have had fairly candid chats, recorded them in the process then made notes of the recordings afterwards. So far I have had a chat with…

Jarrad (Status.im)
Afri (Parity)
Thibaut (Parity)
Madeof_Tin (Tennagraph)
Tim Beiko (PegaSys)
Griff Green (Giveth)
Tobias Schubotz (Gnosis)

Here are notes transcribed and taken from the calls/chats I have so far…
Exploring Status’s struggles of growing with co-founder Jarrad Hope ETHProduct: Jarrad (Status.im) - Google Docs
Learning about Parity’s programmer anarchy with release manager: Afri Schoedon ETHProduct: Afri (Parity) - Google Docs
Learning about Parity’s role of Product owner in Parity with Thibaut
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dpzqxgwMhhgxUPphiv3AC6ahASVjb7luQPMPykfhrFY/edit?usp=sharing
Differences of working in deeper r&d tech startup vs. Ethereum client r&d with Tim Beiko
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1147xBi6dgGKpvgwqwp3SBfW9DizIROatnMnJ6oGNYfk/edit?usp=sharing
Challenges of grassroots open source projects with Madeof_Tin from TennaGraph
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jROOlWRWHv4C-pCfcXRbhRhyk-xvMhH4oncqNiWw72M/edit?usp=sharing
Flat holacracy organisation models with Griff Green from Giveth
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPHYE2gp0wHmdXpjP1RUuFCzE4Jw_UA3j-1cytV3JcA/edit?usp=sharing
Business models and product management of Gnosis Safe with Tobias Schubotz from Gnosis
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15dwQOetEptOyvRotkZbq-Cn1rMmtutRFpSahFXP0qjg/edit?usp=sharing
I am still yet to have a chat with the following folks, expect notes soon as well ~

ENS
ImToken
SkaleLabs
EF

Looking to have ongoing conversations about it with others! Reach out

Author: ligi
Date: 2018-12-05T09:58:13.751Z

thanks!
can you (or @5chdn) give some insight on this:

Lots of people left parity left due to not having people tell them what to do.

having problems parsing this.

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-05T10:01:52.456Z

ligi:

thanks!
can you (or @5chdn) give some insight on this:

Lots of people left parity left due to not having people tell them what to do.

having problems parsing this.


I guess the notes are still fairly rough and could be refined.
I believe we were talking about some people requiring more structure in the work environment. Not sure about ‘lots’, but apparently some folks left due to the anarchistic lack of structure and guided focus.

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-06T07:12:29.398Z

+Added notes on my chat with Thibaut from Parity
Understanding the role of product owner amidst Parity’s developer anarchy


docs.google.com



ETHProduct: Thibaut (Parity)
Context and background  Joined parity nearly a year ago with team count of 40, now 2018 December 70 people - feels there is little difference  Product owner role, very different to the traditional product owner role ~  Engineering background, C...

Author: 5chdn
Date: 2018-12-06T18:44:14.615Z

ligi:


Lots of people left parity left due to not having people tell them what to do.



as far as I remember, only one colleague left.

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-06T18:49:21.073Z

5chdn:

as far as I remember, only one colleague left.


My bad. fixed it on the docs

Author: graeme
Date: 2018-12-07T09:51:55.604Z

Happy to chat about how we do Product at Argent

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-07T12:34:22.194Z

Awesome, sent a DM! This must be 20 characters

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-08T12:21:49.933Z

+Added notes on my chat with Tim Beiko from PegaSys Engineering
Differences of working in deeper r&d tech startup vs. Ethereum client r&d with Tim Beiko
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1147xBi6dgGKpvgwqwp3SBfW9DizIROatnMnJ6oGNYfk/edit?usp=sharing

Author: Ethernian
Date: 2018-12-09T13:34:53.666Z

Good work, @pet3rpan!
Would you allow comments in your googldocs? For corrections and questions…

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-10T01:07:06.591Z

pet3rpan:

ETHProduct: Jarrad (Status.im) - Google Docs


Commenting enabled! 20characters

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-11T05:24:14.996Z

Had an awesome chat with @MadeofTin (TennaGraph) and @GriffGreen (Giveth) recently, interview notes will be up shortly! Also will be talking to @Simona_Pop @graeme @tschubotz tmr ~ stay tuned

Author: zhen6939
Date: 2018-12-11T10:32:04.782Z

I would like to share some Product/Project Management experiences from imToken(ConsenLabs) if you like.

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-16T09:31:44.339Z

zhen6939:

I would like to share some Product/Project Management experiences from imToken(ConsenLabs) if you like.


Looking forward in chatting to you

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-12-16T10:03:56.162Z

Change log: + Griff from Giveth + Tobias from Gnosis
Flat holacracy organisation models with Griff Green from Giveth
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPHYE2gp0wHmdXpjP1RUuFCzE4Jw_UA3j-1cytV3JcA/edit?usp=sharing
Business models and product management of Gnosis Safe with Tobias Schubotz from Gnosis
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15dwQOetEptOyvRotkZbq-Cn1rMmtutRFpSahFXP0qjg/edit?usp=sharing