Tips, tricks, and hacks that help you to be a better, more clever, Product Manager.
One of the least glamorous parts of Agile development for most Product Managers is the process of backlog grooming. It can be a challenge to get teams to engage when they're in the middle of a sprint, it can be difficult to convince stakeholders to … [Continue reading]
I'm often asked what the key to being "agile" really is, and over the years I've managed to come up with a clear and concise answer: accepting uncertainty is the key to agility. It is perhaps the single most fundamental culture change that companies … [Continue reading]
One of the challenges that we commonly run into as Product Managers is the battle between opinions and data. And though it would be nice to pretend that data always wins, and that there's always truth in Jim Barksdale's famous quote, "If we have … [Continue reading]
It's become rather commonplace lately for people to dismiss "Agile" out of hand as an industry buzzword with no meaning or substance to it. And in some ways, the term has earned that reputation -- mostly from people who use it regularly without … [Continue reading]
As a Product Manager, it's in our bones to always do the best job possible, to deliver the best product possible, and to satisfy the most customers possible. But what if I told you that by always succeeding, we're actually hampering ourselves? … [Continue reading]
There's a rather annoying trend that's been showing up within both job postings and resumes that's just crawled under my skin in a way similar to the "ninja" and "rockstar" appellations that developers have adopted. The description that I'm talking … [Continue reading]
Even though it's been around as a formal role in software organizations for nearly 20 years (or more, depending on who you talk to), Product Management still struggles with a lot of definition problems -- what is the role, how do we grow, when do we … [Continue reading]