Confessions of a Feature Factory Escapee
Dean PetersFor product managers trampled by HiPPOs, dancing like Jira-slinging monkeys for roadmap zealots—offering hard truths, shared laughs, and a hopeful way out of the feature factory, one parody and product insight at a time.
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