28 items tagged with productmanagement

Roadmap Outcomes, not Features (September 9, 2024) Drive success by roadmapping the outcomes you'll create instead of the features you'll deliver.

Different roadmaps for different folks (September 9, 2024) The key to effective roadmapping? Different views for different needs.

Great product managers own the outcomes (May 5, 2024) Being a product manager means never having to say, "that's not my job."

Too Big To Fail (April 4, 2024) 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 (April 4, 2024) 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 (April 4, 2024) You can't use data to build products unless you start with a hypothesis.

Mastery doesn't come from perfect planning (December 12, 2023) 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 (November 11, 2023) Changing from "Customers" to "Partners" will give you a better perspective on internal product development.

Measuring Feature success (October 10, 2023) 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 (October 10, 2023) Your code is only part of the product

Tyranny of Outcomes (August 8, 2023) An extreme focus on outcomes can have an undesired effect on product teams.

The Trap of The Sales-Led Product (December 12, 2020) It's not a winning way to build a product company.

The Hidden Cost of Custom Customer Features (December 12, 2020) One-off features will cost you more than you think and make your customers unhappy.

Domain expertise in Product Management (November 11, 2020) 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.

Understanding vision, strategy, and execution (October 10, 2020) Vision is what you're trying to do. Strategy is broad strokes on how you'll get there. Execution is the tasks you complete to complete the strategy.

How to advance your Product Market Fit KPI (October 10, 2020) Finding the gaps in your product that will unlock the next round of growth.

How to understand your product and your market (September 9, 2020) 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 (September 9, 2020) 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 (September 9, 2020) 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 (September 9, 2020) Learn what adjacent problems you need to solve to become twice as valuable to your customers.

How to scale your product team from one product manager to an entire organization (August 8, 2020) As your product management team scales, you'll have issues around redundancy, communication, and consistency. Here's now you might solve those.

TV hosts as a guide for software managers (May 5, 2020) Software managers can learn a lot from journalists or late night TV hosts and how they interview people.

The Improvement Flywheel (April 4, 2020) An incredible flywheel for the improvement of a development team. Fix a few things, and everything starts getting better.

Dysfunctions of output-oriented software teams (September 9, 2019) Whatever you call it, the symptom is that you're measuring your progress by how much you build and deliver instead of measuring success by the amount of customer value you create.

Evaluative and generative product development (August 8, 2019) 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.

Product Manager Career Ladder (August 8, 2019) What are the steps along the product management career path?

Building the Customer-Informed Product (August 8, 2019) 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 (February 2, 2019) There are a lot of problems with using feature voting to drive your product.