10 Tips For Product Managers
10 tips you can start using today to become a better product manager, get your sales people to love you, win more deals, and watch your profits soar.
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Product Management Metaphors – Bad and Good
In this episode, a common product management metaphor that’s actually terrible, plus two GOOD metaphors you can use to help you create better products. We use lots of metaphors for understanding, justifying, and explaining the things we do as product managers. Whether it’s our analytics as “the cockpit of a plane,” or comparing design constraints
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The Impact Area Checklist: A Cognitive Aid For Product Managers
Even highly cognitively capable people – including product managers – can forget to do simple things that they know they should do. In this episode I discuss the power of checklists in general, a product management-related checklist you can start using right away, and some ideas for how you can embed checklists in your products to help your customers solve their problems.
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Product Managers Are Unicorns
Product managers are unicorns – simply based on the numbers we are rare. But in another sense too – there’s no formula for “great product manager.”
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The Most Important Communication Skill For Product Managers
In this episode I cover a fundamental skill and mindset about communication – the number one thing at which product managers must excel.
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Successful Products Are All Alike; Every Unsuccessful Product Is Unsuccessful In Its Own Way
Like so many of my podcasts, this episode started from a Slack conversation last week. “What are some good products that were marketed badly?” Of course, if a good product is marketed badly, that usually means it’s going to fail, which usually means no one ever heard of it. But the fact is that there