Category: Product Management
How to Negotiate Your Product Management Salary
Salary negotiation isn’t easy in any profession, but it can be particularly tricky in product management. Whether it’s because some… Read →
How to Measure Product Manager Performance
Product management is a role largely comprised of soft skills and strategy, which, at first glance, would make it difficult… Read →
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 →
What is Product Management’s Role in Promoting Innovation?
Product managers are often responsible for driving innovation within their organizations. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, given product managers—particularly… 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 →
12 Traits of High-Performing Product Teams
As a product team grows from one or two individual contributors to a larger, more diverse team, it takes some… 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 →
Product Scaling Secrets from 4 Companies that Cracked the Code
Leading a product team during a high-growth period can be exciting. The team grows, roles shift, output increases, and many… Read →
5 Product Management Books to Read in 2019
One of the greatest things about the product management space is the wide availability of game-changing information out there. We’re… Read →
The SaaS Marketing Metrics that Matter to Product Managers
Product managers and marketers share many of the same goals. But if marketing isn’t your thing, you might not know… 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 →
11 Key Competencies to Look for When Interviewing Product Management Candidates
Hiring a new product manager is definitely more art than science. There aren’t many quantifiable indicators of future success, as… Read →
How Product Managers Measure Product-Market Fit
Problems yearn for solutions, needs long to be met, and markets are waiting to be addressed. This reality beckons startups… 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 →
Should You Structure Your Product Team Like Amazon, Spotify, or Something Else Entirely?
Effectively scaling a successful product team requires more than hiring additional product managers. You also need to consider the big… Read →
The Rise of Product Ops: the New Discipline Powering Product Excellence
As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban,… 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 →
3 Key Habits of the Modern Product Manager
The product management landscape is constantly in flux. And today, it’s evolving faster than ever before. Agile principles have infiltrated… Read →
