Product Management Archives
A Framework for Scaling product teams
The people, processes, and systems that make up a product organization change radically as you go through the stages of a company. This framework will guide that scaling.
Roadmap Outcomes, not Features
Drive success by roadmapping the outcomes you’ll create instead of the features you’ll deliver.
Different roadmaps for different folks
The key to effective roadmapping? Different views for different needs.
Too Big To Fail
When a company piles resources on a new product idea, it doesn’t have room to fail. But failing is an important part of innovation. If you can’t let it fail, it can’t succeed.
Go small
The strengths of a large organization are the opposite of what makes innovation work. Starting something new requires that you start with a small team.
Start with a Belief
You can’t use data to build products unless you start with a hypothesis.
Mastery doesn't come from perfect planning
In a ceramics class, one group focused on a single perfect dish, while another made many with no quality focus. The result? A lesson in the value of practice over perfection.
Reframe How You Think About Users of your Internal Platform
Changing from "Customers" to "Partners" will give you a better perspective on internal product development.
Measuring Feature success
You’re building features to solve problems. If you don’t know what success looks like, how did you decide on that feature at all?
Build the whole product
Your code is only part of the product
The Trap of The Sales-Led Product
It’s not a winning way to build a product company.
The Hidden Cost of Custom Customer Features
One-off features will cost you more than you think and make your customers unhappy.
Domain expertise in Product Management
When you’re hiring software product managers, hire for product management skills. Looking for domain experts will reduce the pool of people you can hire and might just be worse for your product.
How to advance your Product Market Fit KPI
Finding the gaps in your product that will unlock the next round of growth.
How to understand your product and your market
A customer development question you can ask to find out who your product is best for and why they’ll love it.
The KPI that measures Product-Market Fit
If you ask this question to a different small group of your users every week, you can measure trends over time to determine if you’re moving toward product-market fit.
Don't use NPS to measure user happiness for enterprise software
Measuring the satisfaction and enjoyment of end users is a key to unlocking product-led growth. Net Promoter Score is the wrong tool for this.
Ask One Question To Help You Reach Product-Market Fit
Learn what adjacent problems you need to solve to become twice as valuable to your customers.
Evaluative and generative product development
Customers never even talk to the companies that don’t fit their needs at all. If the only product ideas you’re considering are those that meet the needs of your current customers, then you’re only going to find new customers that look exactly like your current customers.
Building the Customer-Informed Product
Strong products aren’t composed of a list of features dictated by customers. They are guided by strong visions, and the execution of that vision is the primary focus of product development.
Feature Voting Is Harmful To Your Product
There are a lot of problems with using feature voting to drive your product.