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Treat Your Product Team Like a Sports Team, Not a Family
Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. While organizations have always had culture, the long-held… Read →
5 Mistakes You’re Making When Sharing Your Product Roadmap
Product managers interact with many parts of the organization on a regular basis, but it’s usually either asking for specific… Read →
Transitioning from Managing Products to Managing Product Managers
Considering the leap from being a product manager to a leadership role, but not sure what’s involved in managing product… Read →
How to Include Stakeholders in the Product Planning Process
Unless your company is literally a one-person show, your role as a product leader includes stakeholder management. And including stakeholders… Read →
Customer Interviews: Should you Interview Users or Buyers?
Customer interviews are an important component of the product development process. Product managers use customer interviews to help inform product… Read →
When is it Time to Scale the Product Team?
When you find yourself wondering if it’s time to scale your product team, you have what we’d call a high-quality… Read →
How Product Managers Can Break Down Organizational Silos
When we think of organizational silos that affect product management, we usually imagine the obvious ones. A product team doesn’t… Read →
Why Technical Debt Roadmaps Don’t Work
To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. “If you… Read →
6 Key Hard Skills in Product Management
You hear a lot about the need for soft skills in product management, but product managers also need hard skills…. Read →
How Product Managers Should Deal with Different Stakeholder Types
The product management community often uses the term stakeholder management as shorthand for how product managers communicate with executives and… Read →
Time to End-of-Life Your Product? Use This 10-Step Checklist
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 →
7 Secrets for Successful Product Roadmaps
Wouldn’t it be great if you could learn, right now, from hundreds of experienced product managers? What would they say… Read →
Product Managers: 5 Tips for Dealing with Different Personality Types
If you were running a focus group for a new product and you knew a few members of the group… Read →
The Typical Product Planning Process
The product management role is incredibly dynamic and, frankly, that’s part of the appeal. The rules aren’t always clearly defined,… Read →
Creating a Roadmap: How Long Should it Take?
A successful product roadmap is, in a sense, a work of art. So to answer the question, “How long should… Read →
The Impact of Human Psychology on Product Pricing
Before we get into specific tips for product pricing, let’s get one important point out there right away: A successful… Read →
3 Prioritization Matrix Examples for Your Team
More than 40% of product managers today re-prioritize the initiatives in their backlogs every week. That’s what we found out… Read →
3 Reasons Your Product Launch Should Include a Pre-Mortem
The pilot episode of the now-cancelled TV series Low Winter Sun opens with a scene in which two cops have… Read →
