As product managers, we communicate with everyone: engineers, designers, sales, account managers, marketing, you name it. Our products are complex and we are seen as the resident experts. We clarify product requirements with engineers, help our sales team overcome objections,…
Over the past 3 months, I’ve written a number of posts inspired by the book Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath. I’m a big fan of their work and so much of the research from Decisive is directly applicable to…
I’ve read 60 books (so far) this year. These were my favorites. If you like these reviews, I’ll be launching a blog after the new year about the books that I’m reading. I’ll share details in an upcoming newsletter. If…
It’s tempting to believe that user acquisition is the key factor for assessing mobile app success, but high download rates do not yield much market benefit without active users. Brands invest massive sums of money attracting users; but, it just…
I often get asked for book recommendations related to product management. This is a hard question to answer. There are a lot of great books out there. But I think the most important aspect of being a good product manager…
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) I just finished reading “Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman”, a series of short stories or essays by Richard Feynman that reads like a memoir. Not only was this book a…
There’s been a lot of confusion around brainstorming these days. First, there was the New Yorker article by Jonah Lehrer claiming that brainstorming doesn’t work. Scott Berkun wrote a rebuttal arguing Lehrer’s logic was flawed. Twitter exploded with comments. I’m…
I try to read a book a week and I was right on target reading 50 books in 2013. These were the best of the crop. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others If you have an…
I love that A/B testing has become so popular. It’s an important tool in our toolbox. But it frustrates me that we use it so poorly. Most teams make one of the following two mistakes: They either gate releases with…
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Be a Product Manager, NOT a Product Janitor™ We’ve been consulting and training inside of companies worldwide for over fourteen years, and one thing we noticed is a trend. Since Product Management is often not well-defined or well understood (see…
Thus, Lean Product Management is a journey. It is a process of continuous learning and improvement. There is no point where we can say “We have arrived.” We can only say “we did better today than yesterday, and I believe…
Product Management is gaining importance in the corporate world. According to an article on CBS News about the 10 most valuable corporate jobs it is now #4, with only CEO’s, Senior Execs and General Managers ranked as more important. Here…
