Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻

26👩🏾‍💻 Year 3 in Product. First Gen Grad. Former FemTech Founder. Documenting my journey talking about tech and everything in between.

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

Honestly, while I’m on it, my whole tech journey has been mostly on accident lol.
-Competed in a tech contest after pitching an educational video game to my computer teacher in 4th grade.
-Built my 1st website at 13 to drop ship clothes because I was too young to work but—

[sophie @netcapgirl]

wearing this all christmas season this year

[sophie @netcapgirl]

ever since i was young i dreamed of creating shareholder value via ai powered operating systems for the modern enterprise cloud

[nelson @madebynelson_]

🎃✨

[Steve (Builder.io) @Steve8708]

linkedin the good parts

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

PMs carrying their Q2 OKRs right into Q3

[The Product Folks 🚀 @TheProductfolks]

😂😂

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

It’s me & my monitors against the world 💗

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

PM getting ready to write a jira ticket with one sentence and no acceptance criteria

[KRAY ROXAS @krystalroxas]

I knew I could count on Twitter to see if #MicrosoftTeams was down for anyone else and not just me 😂

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

Hoping for a trip to the Chi HQ for the next PI planning week. My new team is all there in person whilst I’m in TX which makes collaboration less frictionless. ☹️ Do you like PI planning? #tech #blackintech #pm #productmanager #businessanalyst #ba #piplanning #agile #SAFe

[Deirra @deirradecoded]

*Cries in Sprint & PI Planning*

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

Product Managers being the CEO of the product is the furthest thing away from the truth, do you agree or disagree?#ProdMgmt #ProductManagement #Agile#TechProduct #ProductDevelopment #UXDesign #Innovation #Scrum #PMOT#ProductStrategy #CEOofProduct

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

Who else? 😭 Changed my password right before I left and could not remember what I changed it to.

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Me returning to work today after the holidays

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

The new Social Network plot is unfolding right before our eyes. 👀

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

[Ant Murphy @ant_murphy]

Hey PMs, anyone NOT using Jira?

What do you use instead?
(Genuinely curious)

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

It’s Release Day Eve! No one ever prepares you for how stressful they are until you experience your first lol. 😅😩

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

Product folks, what is your work-life balance like? Especially if your developers are overseas. #pm #ProductManagement #productmanager #backlog #technicalproductmanager #ba #businessanalyst #productanalyst

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

So excited because I just got my promotion! Associate is officially dropped from my BA title! Woohoo!!

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

Is Slack down for just me or…?! How can I bother my engineers if Slack is down?! 🤣 Jk I do have a question though and they’re working on east coast time AND it’s Friday so plz hurry Slack 😭

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

Yesterday marked my 1 year work anniversary! 1 year since becoming a BA, 1 year of supporting digital products, 1 year of helping cultivate a Women in Tech ERG and 1 month on my new team. Ahh it’s been so busy but as always, more to come! 🎉 🥂

[Lea Nicole👩🏾‍💻 @theleanicole]

Literally had this convo today. Ha.