Continue to grow your Product knowledge
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 Read More
Product Management Metaphors – Bad and Good Read More »
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.
The Impact Area Checklist: A Cognitive Aid For Product Managers Read More »
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
In this episode I present a somewhat iconoclastic list of books related to product management that I’ve found extremely valuable, and which don’t often appear on those other “product management book” lists.
10 Product Management Books I Recommend Read More »
How do you describe product management? In this episode I share a framework that will help you answer this question.
The framework is simple and straightforward, so it’s easy to remember. It uses short words in ways everyone can understand. It doesn’t depend on technical or specialized knowledge.
And yet, it’s surprisingly powerful.
The Secret Product Management Framework Read More »
Your methodology, your process, is a means to an end. It’s not the end in itself. If it’s not helping you deliver on your goals, then you need to change it. And if you are looking for a high fidelity metric to use to manage your process or your people – consider the World Series.
The Dangers of Processes and Predications Read More »