Should Your Product Have a North Star Metric?

Product Ònorth starÓ metrics provide benefits in team alignment and product improvement. However, boiling down all stages of the user lifecycle to a single number also has the risks of lack of ownership, disempowerment, and metric ÒhackingÓ.

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Agile

A quick introduction to Agile with emphasis on its core values and principles, contrasting this approach with frameworks based on it, e.g., Scrum.

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Dispelling the Biggest Fallacies of Product Management

Product Management has become an incredibly sought-after career path for people with all kinds of backgrounds and expertise and, while the discipline is crucial to the success of modern business, it’s still very much in a state of development. As a result of all of those factors, it’s very easy to discover myths and product management fallacies that paint a misleading picture of what it’s like to be a practising product manager. This is obviously frustrating, but it can be especially damaging when you’re still early in your career and trying to learn about the craft.

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Tackling Schedule Risk in Product Delivery

What is it like to fly in a fog without any telemetry? Have you felt that way as a product leader when dealing with delivery schedules? Have you wondered why even after five decades of software development as a discipline,…

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Can Jurassic World Alive stand up to Pokemon Go?

The market for location-based gaming is heating up this summer. We’re finally starting to see some major developers come out with an answer to Niantic’s Pokemon Go, a game that is now nearly 2 years old and going stronger than…

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