Product Management Meets Pop Culture

Haiku: New Buyers, Who Dis?

New buyers you say / Not in my Roledex, man / No such buyers then

Product Management Joke: The Phone Call

“Today’s my first day as a product manager,” Grant whispered to himself. “Whatever I do in these next few hours is going to cement the kind of PM people expect me to be.” As he sat at his desk, staring at his silent desk phone. He knew he didn’t want […]

Podcast: Interview With Product Executive, Jeremy Horn

We interview Jeremy Horn (a.k.a., The Product Guy) – an award-winning product management veteran with two decades of experience leading and managing product teams. He’s founded several start-ups and created the largest product management meetup in the world. List here. New Around Here? Subscribe to the podcast feed to get […]

Josie’s Observation & The Secret To Better Product Strategy Meetings

“Let’s get several stakeholders together to gather feedback on our product strategy and exchange ideas.” It sounds so constructive and positive, right? Until five minutes into the meeting… when someone launches into their carefully constructed laundry list of must-have features… and someone else wants to know what happened to that […]

Top 12 Product Management Insights From 2018

With 2018 rapidly coming to a close, let’s take a moment to look back at this year’s top product management insights coupled with a parade of pop culture highs and super depressing lows.

The Genius Of He-Man’s Mini Comics Illustrates The Importance Of Thinking On Your Feet

Every day, you’re inventing something. The faster your can generate, collate, and evaluate ideas to get at a solution, the more successful you’re going to be…

Welcome to Product Management Meets Pop Culture, or PMMPC for short. We use movies, comics, and other pop culture ephemera to illustrate product management lesson that anyone can start using immediately.

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