Managing Your Boss, Huh?
“Managing your boss”1 was a memorable and counter-intuitive learning for me. This is not about schmoozing. This is about being …
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Project Charters For Cross-functional Alignment
Project charter docs drive early alignment with cross-functional teams on special projects, define goals and non-goals, specify RACI stakeholders, and …
Effective New Hire Onboarding with 5-1s
An amazing candidate has accepted your offer and will join soon. How do you help them be successful in their …
Align PRDs To The Product Opportunity
Write the product PRD/spec only after the product opportunity brief is aligned and is a “go”. Here is my Product …
Job To Be Done (JTBD), Tasks, And User Personas In Age Of New Tech
Clay Christensen said, “When you’re trying to innovate, the customer is the wrong unit of analysis. Instead understand what it …
The Only Power Of A Product Manager
The only power of a product manager is market intelligence—its capture and synthesis, both current intelligence and forward intelligence, and …
Pipeline, Not Backlog
Think pipeline of product opportunities, not a product backlog of to-do items. A pipeline is proactive. A backlog feels reactive. …
There Is TEAM In Team: Trust, Empowerment, Accountability, and Motivation
T for Trust. E for Empowerment. A for Accountability. M for Motivation. T.E.A.M. for Team Performance These four elements result …
Purpose Of A Product Team
The purpose of a product team is to drive customer outcomes and business outcomes. They are not a feature factory …
Win Over Customers And Win Against Competitors.
For products to win in the market, they need to win over prospects and win against competitors. Products need to …
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