Being a mentor to product managers is the ultimate form of paying it forward. When you’ve amassed years or decades… Read →

Competitors make our own products better—they create urgency and drive innovation by providing both motivation and a measuring stick. If… Read →

It’s been nearly five years since Sundar Pichai took the reins as CEO of Google. How did this relatively unknown… Read →

You can be a successful product manager without any tools. Unlike a maintenance worker, a carpenter, a lumberjack, or a… Read →

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. While organizations have always had culture, the long-held… Read →

Product managers interact with many parts of the organization on a regular basis, but it’s usually either asking for specific… Read →

Considering the leap from being a product manager to a leadership role, but not sure what’s involved in managing product… Read →

Unless your company is literally a one-person show, your role as a product leader includes stakeholder management. And including stakeholders… Read →

Customer interviews are an important component of the product development process. Product managers use customer interviews to help inform product… Read →

When you find yourself wondering if it’s time to scale your product team, you have what we’d call a high-quality… Read →

Are organizational silos preventing your team (and your organization as a whole) from realizing its full potential? You’re not alone…. Read →

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. “If you… Read →

You hear a lot about the need for soft skills in product management, but product managers also need hard skills…. Read →

The product management community often uses the term stakeholder management as shorthand for how product managers communicate with executives and… Read →

Almost all products eventually reach their natural end-of-life. So it becomes product’s job to take them through the phase-out or… Read →

Wouldn’t it be great if you could learn, right now, from hundreds of experienced product managers? What would they say… Read →

If you were running a focus group for a new product and you knew a few members of the group… Read →

The product management role is incredibly dynamic and, frankly, that’s part of the appeal. The rules aren’t always clearly defined,… Read →