Company Objectives vs Product Objectives: Spot the Difference
This blog post is part of a series. Get started here. Company objectives, team objectives, personal objectives, product objectives… So many objectives! One particularly troublesome problem for anyone...
View ArticleThe Birth of the Modern Roadmap
As a new decade starts, I want to reflect on the advent and growth of something truly important in our industry: the lean roadmap for product managers. This is the story of how it was invented in a...
View ArticleSix Pitfalls to Avoid When Implementing Objectives and Key Results
Setting objectives and key results (OKRs) helps product managers define what needs to be done to solve customer problems, as well as to measure and record success. Initiatives are then used to achieve...
View ArticleAvoiding the Agency Trap – Product Led Companies Scale-Up
When we were little, we talked about what we wanted to be when we were older. Some of us perhaps wanted to be firefighters, or teachers, or maybe even astronauts.What about asking ourselves what we...
View ArticleThe Incentives Problem
Every problem in your working life can usually be boiled down to one thing: misaligned incentives. To find the source of these misaligned incentives, so you can start understanding and doing...
View ArticleProduct Manager Skills: The Best Way to Gain Experience?
People often ask how they can get more product manager experience, whether they’re current project managers who want to accelerate their career or non-product folks who want to land their first...
View ArticleThe Product Tree Game: Our Favorite Way To Prioritize Features
The Product Tree game is a feature prioritization technique developed by our friend Luke Hohmann for his book Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play. We’re sharing...
View ArticleTheme-Based Product Roadmaps: Something Everyone Can Understand
Need to build a product roadmap? Up until recently, no one really knew what product roadmaps were supposed to look like. Should it be a Gantt chart? A feature-based or theme-based roadmap? No one knew...
View ArticleThe 16 Best Product Management Newsletters in 2024
We Product folks know just how quickly our world can turn on its head. The next big thing dropping onto the scene can send tidal waves through the industry, and if you don’t have your eye on the...
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