Richard Ian Porter

Category: Art_Of_Product_War

  • Gratitude (Professional)

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    As March begins I wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on professional gratitude. I’ve been quite open about my gratitude personally. There’s an intersection there, a year ago my baby daughter Winter was in the NICU (Many of these posts are protected due to sensitivity if you’re a friend just ask me for…

  • What is an “Offering Manager”?

    What is an “Offering Manager”?

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    And for that matter what is an “Offering?” Or a “Product” or a “Feature” and how do you know the difference between them all? What is an Offering Manager at IBM? A Product Manager? What is an Offering? How can you tell the difference between a Product and a Feature? Why can’t you just give…

  • Cyber Security is a Team Sport

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    Cyber Security is a team sport. And it doesn’t have to be a dull compliance ridden affair with death by powerpoint, click-through web based training and mindless acceptance of each and every concept by rote. I just absolutely blazed through Cory Doctrow’s Little Brother novel series including the latest (potentially stand-alone more adult- focused) Attack…

  • If you don’t use a password manager, you should quit your tech job…or any job.

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    Just go get a password manager

  • Be Equal

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    I recently completed the Be Equal training as a part of my continuous learning at IBM. Part of it suggested that I record a knowledge-sharing session with my team on what I learned from the training, but I think I’d rather make it fully public, for the sake of broadest transparency. Because I think the…

  • Grow Powerful People

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    I’ve settled on a more concise way to say it. It’s not that the way I had been articulating my mission is wrong. It’s more that it was longer than it needed to be and more of a how than a why. My why is to grow powerful people. My how is by learning and…

  • Beyond the Uniform guest appearance

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    I was proud to be interviewed on the Beyond the Uniform Podcast with Justin Nassiri discussing career moves and some of the value Military Veterans can offer to Technology Companies. It drew and built on a lot of the work I did on The Art of Product War. Justin has delivered guidance and mentorship through…

  • Speaking at a conference on Youtube!

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    ….and inspecting what you expect. I was fortunate to get a chance to present about how inspecting what you expect is important both in the military and with APIs at the Nordic APIs Austin API summit. If you’d like to check out the slides or the video of the presentation you can do so. This…

  • Inspect what you Expect!

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    [This post previously appeared on the API Connect Test and Monitor Blog] I was fortunate to get a chance to present about how inspecting what you expect is important both in the military and with APIs at the Nordic APIs Austin API summit. If you’d like to check out the slides or the video of…

  • The depths of why

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    [Note this post originally appeared on the Art of Product War the stand-alone site for which I have discontinued, I am reposting it here backdated to the same date] One Marine Veteran’s musings on memorial day. Why? It’s the deepest one-word question there is. The direct connection to our feelings. The concept that defies our…