Signals and Threads A Poet's Guide to Product Management with Peter Bogart-Johnson
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Aug 15, 2023 Peter Bogart-Johnson, a poet and program manager at Jane Street, discusses the challenge of gaining trust as an outsider, strategies for teaching new ways of working, and the importance of listening as a PM. They also touch on paying down technical debt, qualities Jane Street looks for in PM candidates, and coordinating teams during times of change.
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From Poetry To Program Management
- Peter Bogart-Johnson joined technical work from a creative background after editing a literary journal and working in nonprofits.
- He was hired into D.E. Shaw Research as a non-technical generalist among other creative people and found the role suited multidisciplinary work.
Creative Thinking Transfers To PM Work
- A poem and a project share constraints, audience, and a beginning-middle-end structure.
- Creative training gives outsiders a different lens that helps solve technical problems with fresh perspective.
Joining Jane Street Remotely During Covid
- Peter joined Jane Street during the pandemic to help introduce PM discipline while remote.
- His first major work was coordinating two data center builds and a large compute cluster migration for research.