Vera Volkhttps://www.veravolk.comRSS Feed for Vera VolkenSun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100Workshops are an art, User Interviews are a sciencehttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/workshops-and-user-interviews/What I have learned facilitating workshops and running user interviews, in my own wordsSun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/workshops-and-user-interviews/How I watched UX research and design becoming central to producthttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/ux-design-and-research/What designing Starbucks store apps taught me about research, iteration, and great UXSun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/ux-design-and-research/My vibe-coded full-stack web app on the cloudhttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/the-app/My first vibe coding project, start to finish. Here's the what, the why, and my honest POV on building a real, cloud-backed app entirely on my own terms.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/the-app/My career evolution with AIhttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/career-evolution-with-ai/How my work has shifted year by year as AI reshaped what engineers are expected to build, and the hands-on ways I've kept pace with it.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/career-evolution-with-ai/How I handle deploymentshttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/how-i-handle-deployments/How I plan, de-risk, and ship deployments, from routine pushes to national rollouts in waves. My POV on doing it without drama.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/how-i-handle-deployments/My OKR playbook: how I picked the right metrics for different kinds of productshttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/my-okr-playbook-how-i-picked-the-right-metrics-for-three-kinds-of-products/My take on why the same OKR approach breaks across different products, and a deep dive into the three frameworks I useFri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/my-okr-playbook-how-i-picked-the-right-metrics-for-three-kinds-of-products/My approach to data governance, security, legal, and architectural best practiceshttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/data-governance-security-legal-architecture/A walk through how I approach the mandatory procedures most engineers dreadFri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/data-governance-security-legal-architecture/Roadmaps that actually landhttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/roadmaps-that-actually-land/A look at how I structure and tailor roadmaps for different stakeholders, covering product vision and strategy for leadership, feature detail for neighboring teams, and project plans for teams that depend on my delivery.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/roadmaps-that-actually-land/Full-stack product leadership: how I learned to own the whole problemhttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/my-skills-throughout-caree/Most product managers live on one side of the fence. This is the story of how I learned to work both, and why it shapes everything I build.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/my-skills-throughout-caree/Selling platform work to leadership - the pitch nobody taught youhttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/the-pitch-nobody-taught-you-selling-platform-work-to-leadership/How I learned to stop pitching engineering work and start selling business outcomes.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/the-pitch-nobody-taught-you-selling-platform-work-to-leadership/My slice of the product universehttps://www.veravolk.com/articles/my-slice-of-the-product-universe/My PM world: the impact I drive, the responsibilities I carry, the stakeholders I navigate, and the daily routine that holds it all together.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.veravolk.com/articles/my-slice-of-the-product-universe/