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Must-Haves Before an Item Makes it on Your Roadmap
Let’s say someone at your company, maybe an executive, suggests prioritizing a new epic for your product. And let’s further… Read →
Marc Foglino on Bringing a Mobile Payments Product to Market at Amazon
In this episode of Product Lessons Learned, Marc Foglino (formerly of Amazon, Telefónica and Samsung) walks us through the process… Read →
10 Takeaways from Mind the Product 2017
This week, more than 1,500 product managers gathered in sunny San Francisco to ‘Mind the Product’. Over the course of… Read →
Is a Product Executive a Product Manager… or an Executive?
A product executive — the Chief Product Officer, Senior Vice President of Product Management, etc. — occupies an interesting role… Read →
A Non-Designer’s Guide for Hiring UX
Technology and design are in the midst of an exciting crossroads, where businesses are becoming aware that the products and… Read →
How Not to Judge a Product Manager
In an interview with MTV years ago, hip hop executive Lyor Cohen offered an important insight when asked about the… Read →
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Do Product Managers Make Good Startup Founders?
Do product managers make good startup founders? The short answer is (probably) yes, product managers are well equipped to transition… Read →
Product Managers, Stop Defending Your Product
Sometimes I think a product manager’s job could be more accurately described as Manager of Conundrums. As a product manager… Read →
Successfully Scaling Product Teams: A Panel Conversation From Product Stack Denver
How do you effectively scale a product team from just a handful of product managers to several dozen? What skills… Read →
10 Must-Read Books for Product Managers
If you want to become a successful investor, argues Charlie Munger, you should first familiarize yourself with psychology, or advertising,… Read →
Embed Your Roadmap Directly into MS SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a useful tool for facilitating collaboration and keeping team members in sync across an organization. SharePoint pages allows… Read →
Why a Post-it Note Might be the Most Important Tool for Product Managers
Here’s a funny exchange from NBC’s sitcom The Office. The CFO of the show’s fictional company Dunder Mifflin says to… Read →
Is Agile Project Management a Good Idea?
The idea of “agile project management” might strike you as wishful thinking at first. It’s like the notion of limiting… Read →
5 Design Principles From The World’s Most Product-Centric Companies
The global marketplace is a crowded, noisy place. There’s lots to choose from and competition at every turn. If you’re… Read →
Product Lessons Learned: Interview with Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Co-Founder of AbarCloud
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In… Read →
Why Most Marketing Plan Examples Won’t Work for Your Organization
Marketing plan examples are all over the web. You can easily find more samples and templates than you could ever… Read →
Product Management Training: 5 Excellent Resources
If you want to become a software developer, one option is to major in computer science or software engineering in… Read →
What Does the Goldilocks Cross-Functional Product Team Look Like?
Astronomers sometimes refer to Earth as being situated in the Goldilocks zone, meaning we are lucky enough to be orbiting… Read →