Tips, tricks, and hacks that help you to be a better, more clever, Product Manager.
Product Management is often seen as a simple matter of inputs and outputs -- we take information from the field, from the market, or from the users, and we create new products and features that meet their needs. If only it were that simple! … [Continue reading]
Roadmaps are a pretty popular topic whenever Product Managers congregate -- whether that's online or at events like ProductCamp. It's also one of the things that new Product Managers or Product Managers moving into a new role in an organization … [Continue reading]
There have been numerous situations in my career as a Product Manager where I've come into a project or product that's so established and critical to client success that there's a strong hesitancy on the part of anyone to dig in and muck with what's … [Continue reading]
Each of the main characters in HBO's adaptation of G.R.R. Martin's fantasy epic Game of Thrones have their own motivations and methods that forward their goals, for good, evil, or something in between. And a careful examination of those characters … [Continue reading]
This is part 3 of a series of articles about leading through influence. The first article focused on the concept of social capital and how we earn the right to ask people to follow us; the second focused on how to use effective facilitation skills … [Continue reading]
It's constantly surprising to me that people seem to have such widely different ideas of what the term "MVP" or "Minimally Viable Product" really means. Perhaps it's a result of the term becoming an industry buzzword, or perhaps it's because it's … [Continue reading]
Product Managers sometimes have a bad reputation when it comes to Development teams -- and we often unintentionally earn these reputations, by the way that we work with them. There are, however some things that Product Managers can do to build a … [Continue reading]