Luke Rettig

Father, Product Manager, DevOps Enthusiast, Boilermaker, Runner...my views are my own.

[Luke Rettig @LukeRettig]

@johncutlefish “Care and feeding” - use a garden metaphor.

“Enhance speed of delivery, reliability, explainabilty, and auditability”

“Reduce technology cost and risk”

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@joshbrady1022 Great time!

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@jgallimore What new popped up? What did we resequence? What was harder/easier than we thought? Did we make an impact to our customers/core business?

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Welp. I know what I’m doing this weekend. @ITRevDOES @ITRevBooks

[Luke Rettig @LukeRettig]

@joshbrady1022 @bbuckets11 @badunn3 @JeffVanArsdel @JacobVanArsdel Oh hell yes!!

[PM Diego Granados @PMDiegoGranados]

Not everything in Product Management is as great as a job description will make it look.

Being a PM is incredible! but there are a few things that you don't learn from books...

A short 🧵 on the not-so-great things about #ProductManagement:

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@simplybastow Increase user adoption

[Jean-Michel Lemieux @jmwind]

Another common question I’m answering working with scaling tech companies is…

Q. What’s the worst leadership advice you’ve heard?

A. By far the worst is “Hire great people and get out of their way”.

Let me explain… 🧵 (1/32)

[Luke Rettig @LukeRettig]

This came in the mail today. Ready to dive in! @ITRevBooks - always producing great reads and great insights. Thank you in advance @realMattKParker!

[Louie Bacaj @LBacaj]

I managed multiple engineering teams before quitting big tech.

Now that I quit, I can speak freely.

Here are 12 things your manager may not be telling you, but I know for a fact will help you. 👇

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@chawklady Jake’s look is how Minnie sleeps at night

[Rosalind Radcliffe @RosalindRad]

Listing to discussion about @Target from @LukeRettig and Brett Craig discussing their transformation - great to hear the focus with 50 days of learning and a focus on people talking to people not building powerpoints at #DOES21

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@RealGeneKim It's been such a fun ride experiencing how principles and mindsets from the DevOps community have translated into how we run our business!

[Jonathan Smart @jonsmart]

Getting going with OKRs
* Think Big, Start Small. And Start
* Broad & shallow (top level strategic outcomes) and narrow & deep (pilots, with alignment (not cascade) of multi-year, annual, quarterly outcome hypotheses)
* Expect to get it 'wrong' and iterate

#BVSSH

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@johncutlefish The journey that so many of us are on!

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@jimternet Make it happen!

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@RealGeneKim Limiting WIP one way or another

[Scott Prugh @ScottPrugh]

I’m awe-inspired and grateful to be part of this great DevOps community. Thanks to @RealGeneKim @jgallimore and @apitrevolution for coordinating a great forum. And thanks to all my other great colleagues who continue to push us forward! @ITRevDOES @ericarmorrison @csg_i

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@johncutlefish @joinClubhouse @simnett "Just Kidding"