Product management is a truth quest. Not to be grandiose, but — at its core — that’s what this field is. Our job as Product Managers is to find the truth, understand it, quantify it, qualify it because it may be true and also irrelevant to what we’re seeking to […]
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane…? is a 1991 thriller, starring real-life sisters Lynn Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave as siblings entangled in a progressively-deranged codependent relationship. This melodrama carries an important lesson for Product Managers about setting expectations for themselves and others. < SPOILER WARNING >Key plot points of this […]
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Two different blogs mentioned me recently so I wanted to return the favor. Ray Slater Berry at Chameleon curated a helpful guide to product management blogs, and here’s what he said about mine: Perhaps one of the best product management blogs on the market. Here’s why. There’s nothing quite like it. […]
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The NBC sitcom Friends debuted in 1994 and followed the lives of six twenty-somethings living in New York City. Chandler (played by Matthew Perry) often struggles with relationships, and goes to his friends for help. Hilarity ensues. And so does a lesson in executive meetings for product managers. <spoiler warning> […]
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“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 […]
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Product Managers live in the nexus of business, technology, and design — and the resulting tension can harm the PM, the products, and the business if left unchecked. This presentation focuses on how the strategies product people use to understand markets, customers, and users can also be utilized to successfully navigate life inside the workplace.
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