Role · HCM
Cargill
Discovered product management by atomizing my own workflow.
I found product management by accident. I was doing HCM work at Cargill and started breaking my own workflow into parts to understand which parts were generating value.
The atomization instinct turned out to be the PM instinct. This is where it started.
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Where the PM instinct started
Before I had the title, I had the behavior: breaking work into discrete components, questioning which steps were necessary, and rebuilding the workflow around the ones that mattered. Cargill is where that became visible.
- Origin of the product management habit
- HCM domain experience
- Workflow analysis and redesign
Discovering product management by taking apart my own job
Some people find their calling in a moment. I found mine by obsessively decomposing what I was already doing. This is that story.
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