A few months ago, San Francisco played host to the Mind the Product conference, a meetup meant to inspire collaboration and bring together the ever growing community of product managers. The conference, now in its 5th year, was started by some of today’s leaders in product management including the founders of the ProdPad product management Read More
Interview with Andrea Saez of ProdPad Read More »
The power of retrospectives Teams that do structured retrospectives or debriefs are typically 25% more effective. What does this mean for you? That improvement can translate into very big business results, like multiplying your profits by a factor of 10. Want better retros? Download my 5 Tips To Unleash The Astounding Power of Retrospectives. How
Retrospectives – What Went Well, What We Could Do Better Read More »
Taking on an existing product In this episode, we talk through an underrepresented topic in the world of Product Management: how specifically to approach the management of an already existing product. Much of the conversation in the podcast and blogosphere about Product Management focuses on the act of bringing a new product to market. But
Becoming the Product Manager for an Existing Product Read More »
How did we learn product management? In this episode Rob and I share some stories about how we learned product management, how we learn new things in general, and what we’re focused on learning right now. How Did Nils Learn Product Management In The Dark Ages? I start out by talking about how I learned
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Rob created the Feature Canvas to help manage the development of major new features. We think other product managers would find it valuable. He presented about it at Product School recently, and offered to share it on the podcast. Some of you already have a picture in your head what that might look like, simply based
The Feature Canvas – One Page for Getting Your Feature S**t Together Read More »
In our earlier episode about how to answer the “product teardown” question in a product manager job interview, we promised a real life example. Here it is!
Handling The Product Teardown Question – Part 2: Example Read More »