Linear roadmaps are misleading without a crystal ball for seeing the future. A roadmap that recognizes the existence of risk as time goes on is more honest. But an effective PM needs to anticipate possible branches, too - and create clear criteria for following each path.

B2B and B2C Product Management are very different. I worked for 5 years as a Product Manager in B2B and for 9 months (so far) in Consumer. While this will likely not be an exhaustive list, here are the 8 biggest differences I've seen. 🧵👇

So who’s like…still hiring designers before the year ends 👉👈

Empowered Product Teams vs. Feature Teams can be closely explained by traffic crossing analogy: Roundabout vs. Grid crossing Here's how 🧵

Hey OpenSearch Contributors! Have you gotten your OpenSearch coin for 2022? Details are here: forum.opensearch.org/t/celebrating-… (dog in a dinosaur suit not included).

OpenSearch 2.5.0 is live! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Blog🔗 opensearch.org/blog/opensearc… Download 🔗 opensearch.org/downloads.html #OpenSearch 2.5.0 focuses on investments in core functionality, including new ways to administer your clusters and tools for accessing, managing, and visualizing your data.

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Always a nice view

OpenSearch 2.6.0 is released and here is what you need to know! 🔎 🤔 🧵 1/9

Lots of awesome new enhancements in OpenSearch 2.6 👏 New Simple Schema for Observability, ML Model management UI, Security Analytics enhancements, Search Back-pressure and much more! Download 🔗 spr.ly/60133vaMD Blog Post 🔗 spr.ly/60143vaME #FOSS #OpenSource

I can't believe it's 3 years to the day when I started at OpenSearchProj. Still feels like day 1. So much to left to learn & grow

This is one of the best synthesis of the challenges of communicating design value and process. When done right, the output appears simple and obvious. There is a lot of work that goes into that.

Last call to vote on this before I submit a PR to fix this. What do we rename Simple Schema for Observability to? github.com/opensearch-pro…

I often find that this is a common problem amongst designers. We’ve been taught about the power of storytelling, so when presenting to executives we go into detail about all the little steps we made to get to the final outcome, often missing the essence of the problem we solved.

Asking our users to design solutions - "what features would you like us to build?" - is an awful idea. Asking their managers - "what features should we build for your teams?" - is an even worse idea.

Who's got BlueSky invites?

If you are using open source software, we would like to know more about how you use it to meet your needs. By answering a simple question, you can check if you qualify for the survey! buff.ly/3Hdqt8J #opensource #opensourcesoftware #research

New blog of how JaegerTracing and OpenSearchProj can be paired together. Choice is the key. Good example of collaboration across AWS Open Source and CNCF communities. #bestofbothworlds

All the Config FOMO

#Aryn is out of stealth. We raised a $7.5M seed from #Factory, #8VC, and others. We released a new #conversational #search stack for unstructured enterprise data. It’s powered by #LLMs, #OpenSearch, and #Sycamore, and all 100% Apache-v2. blog.aryn.ai #GenAI #dataprep.