Product: The Management – Villian Edition

Card battles, childhood nostalgia, and villains that live in your roadmap

This weekend, while doing some spring cleaning, I came across a stack of old Magic: The Gathering cards my kids used to play with.

They’d spend hours building decks, casting spells, and debating the rules with their cousins as if their lives depended on it. I hadn’t thought about those games in years but something about seeing those cards got my thinking. A lot of the product problems we deal with daily: scope creep, missed requirements, zombie backlogs; could just as easily be cards in a deck.

So, I started sketching… One villain led to another… and a few hours later, Tales of Product: the collectible card game was born.

Here are five cards from the set; each one a familiar product villain you’ve probably faced, and how to beat them.  Enjoy.