Modern product managers are not in charge of the production line in the feature factory. They job is to navigate a product through the uncertainty of idea to production.
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Scaling OKRs, Part 1: Strategy Is the Foundation
Posted on April 12, 2023.Without a clear, articulated company and product strategy, scaling OKRs to the whole company will not realize the intended benefits.
Process Experiments
Posted on April 3, 2023.How to use product thinking to de-risk your agile implementation.
3 Steps to Telling A Compelling Story
Posted on March 27, 2023.Here's a simple, 3 step process for putting together a compelling story that can influence any team or audience into aligned action.
Key results should be verbs, not nouns
Posted on March 20, 2023.Key results should be outcomes, measures of human behavior. Behavior is action oriented meaning your KR's should be verbs.
Case Study: How product management saved Fender guitars
Posted on March 13, 2023.There are no short cuts to product success. This case study shows how Fender guitars used solid product management work to discover and define a winning, modern product strategy.
Talking to customers is not a waste of a developer’s time
Posted on March 6, 2023.Everyone should talk to customers. Most companies buy the idea. They also believe it's a waste of time with developers. Here's why they're wrong.
You can’t control your customers’ users
Posted on February 27, 2023.When working in B2B2C it can be tempting to set goals based on end user behavior. That's risky and may set you up to fail. Here's why.
Writing unambiguous objectives
Posted on February 20, 2023.OKRs should have an opinion. Without one, teams lack clear direction. Here's how to write unambiguous objective statements.
Bias for action
Posted on February 13, 2023.Analysis paralysis is a team momentum killer. Biasing for action builds both learning and decision making chops. Here's how.