Have you reviewed your list of New Year’s Resolutions recently? Statistically speaking, you won’t like what you see. According to… Read →

We live in the age of quantifiable measurability. Data abounds, analysis is cheap, and numbers are harder to dispute than… Read →

If you lead a product management team, you know firsthand just how challenging it can be — balancing being a… Read →

Project managers are responsible for executing the plans handed off from product management. This hand-off means delivering on schedule and… Read →

Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT. The developers will handle it. We use AWS or Azure, so… Read →

Until real users get their hands on your product, you can never be 100% sure it works. That’s why product… Read →

Product managers should not create their product roadmaps with a one-size-fits-all approach; each audience needs roadmaps with varying levels of… Read →

Product managers will encounter many forks on the road to growth and product success. Those forks always require answering difficult… Read →

A Customer Advisory Board is a group of customers who meet on a regular basis to share insights and advice… Read →

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, but they also need to set the stage for the product… Read →

As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. Although product managers may not… Read →

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 management interacts 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 →

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 →

A successful product roadmap is, in a sense, a work of art. So to answer the question, “How long should… Read →

Before we get into specific tips for product pricing, let’s get one important point out there right away: A successful… Read →

More than 40% of product managers today re-prioritize the initiatives in their backlogs every week. That’s what we found out… Read →

The pilot episode of the now-cancelled TV series Low Winter Sun opens with a scene in which two cops have… Read →

Product retrospective meetings, also sometimes called sprint retrospectives, can help your team find strengths and weaknesses in your current processes…. Read →

“Please complete the following 20-minute customer survey.” If you saw that subject line in your email inbox, would you feel… Read →

Product managers are often viewed as strategic leaders of their products. They’re expected to take the reigns of their product… Read →

In the Amazon TV series Bosch, a sign stapled to the cubicle wall of homicide detective Harry Bosch reads, “Get… Read →