Decoding Product Leadership Titles (March 3, 2025) Not all product leadership titles mean what they sound like. ‘Head of Product’ can mean anything from a senior PM to a true VP. Here’s how to tell the difference.
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Product Add-Ons Are An Expansion Myth (December 12, 2024) Add-ons can enhance your product’s appeal but won’t drive significant market growth. To expand your customer base, focus on developing standalone products.
Protecting your Product Soul when the Same Product meets New People. (November 11, 2024) Expand into new markets while preserving your product’s core value. Discover how to adapt and grow without losing your product’s soul.
Building the Next Big Thing: A Framework for Your Second Product (November 11, 2024) You need a first product sooner than you think. Here's a framework for helping you identify a winner.
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.
Twitter app competition (April 4, 2010) Life as a Twitter app developer is far from over.
Twitter app competition (April 4, 2010) Life as a Twitter app developer is far from over.
The rest of the world is not like you (April 4, 2010) Normal people are different. Keep that in mind when creating or marketing a product.
Product Leadership (May 5, 2008) An anthology of product leadership writing.
Commodity pricing (January 1, 2008) What's being taught in business schools is making it into the bedroom.
evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea (December 12, 2007)
Just do it (December 12, 2007) We once spent well over one million dollars to decide which $20k software package to buy.
Estimating ship dates (October 10, 2007) An automated way of comparing developer estimates to their past work.
Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (June 6, 2007)
Products are platforms (February 2, 2006) People will use what you create and will break it in new and wonderful ways.
Opinion tracking (April 4, 2003) If you want to know what people think about your products, don't ask them to tell you. Listen to what they tell others.
Generic Names (February 2, 2002)