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The Introverted Product Manager
Can introverts be successful as product managers? No matter what you may have heard, we believe the answer to this… Read →
Making Sense of Planning in an Agile World
“But we’re agile. We don’t plan.” If you’ve ever worked with an agile team, chances are you’ve heard this excuse…. Read →
How to Foster a Culture of Gratitude
As we head into a new year, we tend to talk more about gratitude. We talk about what we’re grateful… 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 →
5 Reasons to Organize Your Roadmap by Themes
The goal of any roadmap, whether it’s a product roadmap, IT roadmap, or marketing roadmap, is to capture and communicate… Read →
Why Soft Skills Are a Hard Requirement for Product Management Career Growth
When we think about the skills required for just about any role, it’s only natural to first think about technical… Read →
5 Hacks for Better Product Roadmap Presentations
Are you prepared for your next product roadmap presentation? As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of… Read →
7 Steps to Determine Whether a Customer Request is Actionable
While customer feedback is the gold standard of insight for product managers, not every customer request is actionable. Today we’ll… 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 →
3 Key Traits of Successful Product Designers
What exactly is product design? And how do you differentiate between a good product designer and a great one? Today… Read →
7 Horrible Things to Say to Executive Stakeholders
Your executive stakeholders have life-and-death power over your products. In most companies, they have the final vote about which product… Read →
4 Mistakes Your Company Might Be Making with Your Product Culture
If we asked you right now to describe your organization’s product culture, what would you say? Don’t be too hard… Read →
3 Products That Capitalized on Excitement Features
No matter how dull you think your product is, there’s always a way to add some excitement to it and… Read →
How to Find Opportunities in Design Flaws
There are lots of ways to define a product manager’s job, but here’s one viable way you could succinctly describe… Read →
Product Innovation: Is Your Product a Slow-Melting Ice Cube?
Product innovation can certainly be exciting and rewarding. And in today’s hyper-competitive and fast-changing business environment, innovation is not optional…. Read →
How to Turn Customer Requests Into Actionable Insight
Product managers are often tasked with managing countless customer requests. But as the strategic masterminds behind product strategy, we know… 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 →
How Product Managers Can Use Wireframes
Have you ever tried to communicate with developers about a user story and found yourself stumbling over your description? Have… Read →