Product Management in Lockdown & the Perils of Hustle Culture (with Jack Stevens, Senior PM @ Publicis Sapient)

One Knight in Product

An interview with Jack Stevens. Jack is Senior Product Manager for Publicis Sapient, a product consultancy that helps large companies with their digital transformation. Aside from his day job working on a secret project that he can't tell us about, Jack was also featured in a BBC article last summer "Stress, burnout and redundancy: Tough times in IT". I spoke to Jack about a few things:

• His work with Publicis Sapient and how they work really hard to be a flat, open company at scale
• How SAFe and other scaled agile approaches (probably) can't work
• How he got onto the BBC article in the first place, and how the reaction has been
• How hustle culture is toxic, mainly a lie, and we just see the survivors who probably succeeded partially through luck
• How it's OK for some people to just be OK and not everyone has to change the world to be successful
• How his employer reacted after seeing the article, and the support they gave him
• How personal hardship has driven his ambitions to work in financial services to ensure people have the right tools to make good financial decisions

And much more!