Items tagged with productmanagement

Tyranny of Outcomes

August 19, 2023 - 391 words
An extreme focus on outcomes can have an undesired effect on product teams.
Also tagged as: goals okrs process

The Trap of The Sales-Led Product

December 10, 2020 - 2018 words
It’s not a winning way to build a product company.
Also tagged as: features productled sales salesled

The Hidden Cost of Custom Customer Features

December 7, 2020 - 976 words
One-off features will cost you more than you think and make your customers unhappy.
Also tagged as: costs customers salesled

Domain expertise in Product Management

November 16, 2020 - 645 words
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.
Also tagged as: hiring

Understanding vision, strategy, and execution

October 24, 2020 - 781 words
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.
Also tagged as: analogy execution strategy vision

How to advance your Product Market Fit KPI

October 21, 2020 - 603 words
Finding the gaps in your product that will unlock the next round of growth.
Also tagged as: customerdevelopment kpi measurement productmarketfit

How to understand your product and your market

September 30, 2020 - 304 words
A customer development question you can ask to find out who your product is best for and why they’ll love it.
Also tagged as: customerdevelopment kpi measurement productmarketfit

The KPI that measures Product-Market Fit

September 9, 2020 - 217 words
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.
Also tagged as: kpi measurement productmarketfit

Don't use NPS to measure user happiness for enterprise software

September 7, 2020 - 706 words
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.
Also tagged as: measurement netpromoter nps productledgrowth productmarketfit satisfaction

Ask One Question To Help You Reach Product-Market Fit

September 3, 2020 - 628 words
Learn what adjacent problems you need to solve to become twice as valuable to your customers.
Also tagged as: customerdevelopment lean product productmarketfit