5 Things all IT Managers Should do to get Stakeholder Buy-In
Implementing a successful enterprise architecture (EA) transformation requires stakeholder buy-in. Hearing that may make you frustrated and worried about the... Read →
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What Your Executives Want to See When You’re Presenting Your Roadmap
As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots... Read →
The Biggest Problem with Customer Delight Expectations
Making a sale deserves celebration, but ringing that bell is only the start of the customer journey. Now it’s time... Read →
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Why the Most Forward-Thinking Product Teams Work Backwards
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The Myth of First-Mover Advantage
First-mover advantage is a real thing. It even has its own TLA (its three-letter acronym being FMA, obviously). The common… Read →
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Product management receives a constant barrage of requests from a variety of sources. Whether you’re talking to customers, salespeople, executives,… Read →
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Outcome-Driven Roadmapping: The Secret to a Focused Product Strategy
Most aspects of our lives are about achieving specific goals. We want to eat, so we make a meal. We… Read →
3 Reasons Product Managers Quit (and How to Prevent It)
When an employee leaves a company, there’s more walking out the door than a salary and a nameplate. They take… Read →
How Do Roadmaps Fit into Continuous Delivery?
When you’re continually shipping code, how do you plan, build, and communicate your roadmap? In this post we’ll outline the… Read →
Creating a Talent Funnel for Finding Great Product Managers
According to leading research on technical recruiting, the interview process for the Internet and Tech industry currently averages more than… Read →
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One of the biggest challenges product managers face is including the entire organization in product planning while avoiding a phenomenon… Read →
Product Scaling Secrets from 4 Companies that Cracked the Code
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Interviewing a product management candidate (and hiring product managers in general) is definitely more art than science. There aren’t many… Read →
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The path to product-market fit is not clearly paved for all products. Today we’ll explore a few ways you can… Read →
6 Critical Steps for Onboarding Product Managers
So, you’re scaling your product management team. Congratulations! Your company is clearly doing something right if you need to bring… Read →
5 Key Responsibilities of Agile Product Leaders
What does product leadership look like in an agile context? And, how is it different from leadership in traditional development… Read →
What Does the Agile Roadmapping Process Look Like in Practice?
In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for… Read →
The Best Product Management Content of 2018
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How to Use Google’s OKR Framework to Prioritize Your Product Roadmap
If you haven’t found the right objective goal-setting framework for setting roadmap priorities, consider Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The… Read →
4 Steps to Managing Unplanned Work
No matter how much you plan, there’s always going to be some level of uncertainty. As Dwight D. Eisenhower famously… Read →