Essentials
How Long to Stay?
How long in a position is optimal for a product manager? Not a simple answer, but there are some practical rules of thumb, and this post might help you decide what is right for you
Product Management
Articles and posts about product management, the practise, the art, and the reality of the role. Useful tips and guidelines
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Forecast Time
Forecasting, seemingly a tangential Product Management task, is fraught with worry and stress. But it is crucial to understanding the business
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Customer Success - a key role
Customer Success, a role that is growing in criticality in the realm of digital transformation, helps drive renewal and adoption. Product Management should be close to the CSM's
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Product Management Time Management - Meetings
Product Management is a role that is consistently overloaded. One major time sink is meeting load. Some tips for how to control this beast
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Product Marketing Vs. Product Management
Revisiting the product marketing versus product management discussion, this time in the context of contracting, and how that affects the role
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The Importance of the Product Owner Role
The Product Owner role is often neglected or reduced to an add-on for Product Management, but it's an increasingly important part of business transformation
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Wrong tools
Every organization has a problem with using the wrong tool for the job. This costs in both dollars, and productivity, yet this continues even when good tools exist
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Expectations for a new Product Management Job
When you start a new product management job, odds are good that you will find some chaos to overcome. Here's what you can expect
Marketing
Focus - an Important Strategy Discipline
Strategy is a key roadmap of where you are going. Unfortunately, there are many pressures that tend to cause deviation. Product Management must remain focused on the end goal
Product Management
Existential Blues - What do you want to be when you grow up
Existential questions appear at junctures in life, even in business, and your decisions at these junctures drive what path you follow, Product Managers are often at these fulcrum points
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To MBA or not to MBA, that is the question
Product Management requires a varied and adaptable set of skills. Is an MBA required for success? Not a simple yes or no question, as often in life, the answer is "it depends"
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UX Observations
Everyday we encounter user interfaces. This means many chances to observe usability, and interactions with real users. Take advantage of these opportunities