Consider the product managerÕs areas of responsibility Ñ setting strategy, identifying customer needs, assessing product opportunities, building the roadmap, prioritizing features, and setting cross-functional tasks and schedules.
While every product team IÕve worked with leverages customer feedback to inform product decisions in some way, most fall short of designing their customer feedback loop to maximize the benefits to the product team of gathering, recording, and synthesizing feedback
In the series of articles, I talked about the relationship between the product manager and engineering, UX, product marketing, project management, and all other areas of the company.
If youÕre a product manager or product marketer, youÕll have likely heard your sales team or marketing teams grumble ÒweÕre not differentiated enough, we need more stuff that our competition doesnÕt haveÓ. Clearly this is a noble goal, but not…
It always used to incense me reading articles on Product Management online. Almost always, you could tell they were from the perspective of a tech elite product manager where data, resources and free sushi abounded aplenty.
ÒOutcomes over outputsÓ is an axiom in tech. Yet most companies are still output-focused.
Considering how competitive and volatile the market is becoming, any business that offers products or services requires mind(s) that are constantly making sure that the overall strategy is really working. In technical terms, you would call these mind(s) as product…
A Product ManagerÕs Guide to Getting Things Done Through Others
As product managers, weÕre expected to set the direction of our products. Everyone in the company wants and needs to understand, ÒWhere are we going?Ó and ÒWhy?Ó.
Product management roles vary across companies as a function of many different aspects, for example company size, culture, or historical context. One important factor driving differences in the role of product managers is whether the product is B2B (with businesses…
The first few days as a product manager can be really hard because you donÕt know what exactly are you supposed to do, and the only reference you have is other PMs in your team. Likely, you wonÕt get to…
After a journey down a twisted Ñ but in hindsight, logical Ñ path as an engineer, design researcher, UX designer, and product manager, I left my full-time job as VP of Product and Design at a deep learning startup and…
Time management is the primary concern that comes up when we ask our followers what they are struggling with right now
Diagrams more powerful than words when presenting a dense information
In his 2017 letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, described how Amazon employees do meetings differently. PowerPoints are banned. Amazonians write six-page memos or narratives that are read at the beginning of each meeting in Ç study hall È…
