Tag: product management

  • 7 Powerful Talks To Make You a Better Product Manager

    A playlist of TED Talks for Product Managers. Great option for your Sunday evening.

  • Unlock your product organization’s potential by defining “done”

    All too often, the task list for your teams shared project management tool shows items like “Create Workflow” or “Define Process”. Items that do resonate well in the flow of work and in the nexus of individuals. But they do fall short of allowing the rest of the organization to grasp the meaning and even…

  • Prioritize Opportunities, Not Solutions

    Prioritize Opportunities, Not Solutions

    I cringe every time I see product teams use a spreadsheet to rank the ideas in their backlog based on some made-up math formula usually consisting of things like business value, user value, and technical difficulty. While this exercise is pervasive, it misses the point entirely. Our job is not to prioritize solutions. A product […] Source:…

  • Empowering the Product Team

    Point Towards the Mountain Set Rules for the Journey Focus on Learning and Teaching Empowerment is Worth it Source: 4 Keys to Empowering Your Product Team – Mind the Product

  • Product Management vs Product Ownership

    The organisation that I am part of introduced an overlaying Product Management department only fairly recently, less than a year ago. Early in the time it was exciting to see this role dedicated to market and customer perspective, but it raised questions over how this was different from Product Ownership from day one. Over the…

  • Competitive Analysis and Strategy To Win

    A product’s success is not only defined by its features. Whether it can win in the market to a large extent is owed to the environment it is offered. Customer requirements, competitive offering, market climate, environmental conditions, total cost of ownership (TCO) can have an impact on the products success. A competitive overview is essential…

  • What Makes People Upgrade Products?

    With the release, a product ain’t done yet. Customers may like that product and go for with this product for a long while. At some point, a new release will bring them to make a decision. HBR has a perspective on the drivers for these decision points. People splurge when they think they’ve grown. Source:…

  • Product Manual

    Als “Product Hunt Product #4 of December 2017” ist das sicher keiner der heissen Tips. Product Manual ist aber trotzdem für jeden Produkt-Manager eine Erwähnung wert, weil sich zu allen relevanten Themen in der kuratierten Sammlung dort etwas findet. Angefangen von der Definition von Produkt-Management über Benutzer-Interaktion (Umfragen!) und Prototypen bis zur Strategie-Entwicklung. Loaded with…

  • AWS in Plain English

    You develop apps and want to move to the cloud? You may start looking at Amazon Web Services (AWS), but are confused? ExpeditedSSL translates the names for you. Priceless. But with 50 plus opaquely named services, we decided that enough was enough and that some plain english descriptions were needed. via: AWS in Plain English