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Chiara Cokieng

📍 Berlin, Germany

Platform Product Owner as vehicle and storyteller (and not domain expert)

In Julia Cameron’s book The Right to Write, she says, > When we are just the vehicle, the storyteller and not the point of the story, we often write very well—we certainly write more easily. This is true. I’m coming to see a big part of my

That’s okay. This is the game I choose to play.

I have been randomly bursting into tears at work. It has nothing to do with the company or the people I work with. It has everything to do with me. Why? I am not sure. Out of frustration, I guess. All I know is, this happens in the first six

Sparring above your weight class

In high school, most of my friends were smarter than me. They went on to attend Harvard, Stanford, MIT… So, yeah, graduating magna cum laude in the best university in the Philippines? It was practically a requirement for me. Professionally, I sign up for things I do not qualify for.

Thesis: Infrastructure Product Management is a unique category of PM-ing and needs its own best practices

To address this, I started by asking a Product Owner colleague of mine at Giant Swarm, “How is doing product here different from doing product in your previous company?” The answer: > Omg I don’t think there’s one thing that is the same 😂 I’ll start by thinking

A mini enlightenment

I had a mini enlightenment today. I checked my morning run on Strava. It reminded me that I haven’t “kudos”-ed anyone on Freeletics recently. /And that I should go do that now./ Here’s the mini enlightenment. I stopped. And I thought, “You know what? Just because I

How do you measure if your product is providing real value? It’s enough to measure if your user is using it.

In this post, I want to make two arguments: * Usage is positively correlated with Real Value. * To measure if the user is getting Real Value from your product, it’s good enough to measure if the user Is Using your or Is Getting Nominal Value from your product. 1-Generic Metrics

[H] Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Summary 1. What are my strengths? 2. How do I perform? 1. Am I a reader or a listener? 2. How do I learn? 3. Do I work well with people, or am I a loner? 4. And if you do work well with people, you then must ask, in

Decade in Review: 2010-2019

2010 I am a junior in the University of the Philippines. I am fighting to maintain my magna cum laude standing. Someone tags me in this photo. I realize that, holy shit, I am fat. Holy shit. I am fat.2011 My uncle treats me and my sister to a

Q&A to: Filipino’s Guide to Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) for Direct Hires

I am grateful to Nicole Kalagayan’s Filipino’s Guide to Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) for Direct Hires [https://medium.com/@nicole.kalagayan/filipinos-guide-to-overseas-employment-certificate-oec-for-direct-hires-62f70d110202] , as well as Ayra’s guide [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ay34z4Q_3jiL91wDXgr76ZWp8trTOnt1BEAW2FdzTCE/edit?fbclid=IwAR2SOmsIj5exTCRVrUmltdKJSA11lMoD-lWbFt9pBnoEvb-JeQlxjPgIbpg] . I am also grateful to Lee’s [https://www.

No one is coming to save us

> No one is coming to save you. Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem Don’t get me wrong — I didn’t sit around waiting for someone to save me. But when I was ten, I thought a person goes from grade school to high school to university to first