By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 Principal product manager interview questions should test the one thing a senior PM loop never reaches, which is whether the candidate can change decisions they don’t own, in writing and in rooms where nobody reports to them. Product sense still matters. At this level it’s the entry fee, … Read more
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha Kill any AI pilot that has no financial owner, cannot name the credit decision it changes, or has never been scored against a result that already happened. Most AI implementation failure in private credit is a pilot that nobody had the standing to stop. The … Read more
By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 Scope creep is work added or swapped in after a project is committed, and a mid-sprint priority change costs far more than the new work, because the team pays to stop, replan, reload context, and repair what it abandoned. On my worksheet, a six-engineer team taking … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 An IT director job description should state the environment in numbers, which functions sit in-house versus with an MSP, who owns security when there is no CISO, and a base range, usually $160,000 to $210,000 at mid-market companies. Leave those out and you get a list of … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Good IT director interview questions in 2026 test what a resume hides: how the candidate handled a vendor renewal that tripled, who wrote the help desk reset script, and what happened to the Windows 10 machines nobody retired. Leadership-style questions still belong in the loop. They just … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A group product manager job description should name the product managers the hire will manage, who writes their reviews, the surface the hire still runs personally, and a base range, typically $190,000 to $285,000 in 2026. Strip any one of those four out and the posting reads … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Good group product manager interview questions test two jobs at once, owning a product surface and growing the two to four PMs who report in, and they make the candidate show how one 45-hour week holds both. Most published lists skip the second job. They ask senior PM questions … Read more
A data migration plan is a written document that names what moves, how each field maps, which numbers must reconcile before cutover, who approves each gate, and the exact conditions that trigger rollback. Most of what gets circulated as a migration plan is a Gantt chart with the word “migration” on it. That is a … Read more
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha Software adoption is the share of a decision that actually runs inside the system you bought, not the number of people who hold a license for it. Adoption stalls when the platform needs inputs the operation cannot produce. Training does not create an input. The … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Application rationalization is the exercise of listing every application you pay for, measuring who actually opens it, naming an owner, and putting a renewal date beside it, then deciding what to keep. Four columns. Not a maturity model, not a framework, and not something you need a consulting deck … Read more
