Christophe Dujarric - Heimir Consulting

Building the Right Product: Why, What, and How

Reminder: don’t trust fancy methodology names I tend to repeat myself over all of the articles I’m publishing here, yet let me do it one more time for this particular topic: I don’t believe in dogmas.

Product Design, Roadmap, and Estimations

I’ve written about this topic already, a long time ago. Yet, it was with other words, with less experience. And I’m doing it again, as throughout the teams I met and worked with, it still seems like a key pushback, while it really is in the best interest of everyone, engineers, PMs, and anyone else alike.

Chatbots, My Rules of Engagement

Many can witness, I can be considered a laggard when it comes to using Chatbots. I must say, I’ve always been super cautious about those beasts.

Hopes and (Reasonable) Expectations

It might feel like a strange topic to revive this blog once more but taking a step back, it is the result of now 17 years of working in start-up and scale-up companies. I won’t pretend I’m some sort of wise, old man. But I’ve learnt a couple of things, and I like sharing it.

Go-to-Market & Discovery: When Is the Last Time You Talked to a Lead?

Last week, I had a real blast giving a talk at ProductInCorp summit Nantes 2024.

Some Keys to Setting Objectives

Why not read this post further I wondered for a minute whether I’d title this blog post “Forget about setting objectives”. Why? Essentially because, as you might have noticed if you read some of my past posts, I’m rather against dogmas. And today, at least in the software industry, most of the chats I have with people about “objectives” include the “OKR” term.

Product Management Is Not Project Management

In the early days of this blog, I started writing a series of articles on what Product Management is, and what it is not, according to my experience. There’s a draft I initiated back then that I thought would be uninteresting. I’m pretty surprised that I’m now writing it, but after seeing some discussions about it in some product management communities, I felt it was time.

NPS, Doing It Right

Disclaimer I’m not a fan of NPS, for the reasons I’ll expose later in this article. It probably suffers from its fame and the common consequent pitfall where teams would rush into using it without thinking it through.

Methods: Adapt It, Don’t Adopt It

It’s been about 12 years that I’ve been working in “agile” environments. I’m getting the chance of discussing with multiple teams from multiple companies, and to try and understand how they work, and where they struggle. One thing especially seems to worry people, funnily enough: words.