Technology Skills for Product Managers

Technology Skills for Product Managers The most useful technical concepts to understand when working with engineers How technical should product managers be? As with most things in life, the answer...

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Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product

Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product From Product Manager to Product Leader This is not going to be your typical ‘how-to’ article for moving up into a Product Leadership role....

Jun 2020

Why product features matter

Why product features matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? What evidence do you have to suggest that the features you’re building will actually...

May 2020

Component Oriented Thinking for Product Managers

Component Oriented Thinking for Product Managers How to embed the benefits of components into your product process What’s a component?   Components mean many things to different members of a modern...

May 2020

5 Ways to use Post it Notes as a Product Manager

Why square bits of paper continue to win in an increasingly paper-free world Post it notes shouldn’t really exist The humble post it note used to be predominantly for office workers to remind themselves and their colleagues...

Jan 2020

How to Agree Ways of Working as a Product Team

What to do when your ways of working aren’t working Things feel a little stale. You’re stuck in a bit of a rut. The team’s energy isn’t quite what it used to be. And you’re not able to quite pinpoint exactly what has led...

Jan 2020

Radical product strategy

How to iterate less to achieve more   In 2011 when I founded Likelii, we had a clear vision: To make it easier and fun for wine enthusiasts to find wines they were likely to like. But despite having a clear vision, I...

Sep 2019

How to measure product market fit

6 indicators to help you build products people love Product-market fit describes the stage of a company where they have successfully identified a target customer and are serving them with a product that meets the customer’s...

Sep 2019

Managing UX debt

Why tension between product designers and managers is healthy I was recently asked by a colleague what I found to be the most challenging aspects of product management. Without much thought, I blurted out a response which...

May 2019

Tools for making better product decisions

Practical tools and frameworks for when you’re not sure what to do next In Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets, the author refers to a practice called ‘resulting’. And it’s a surprisingly common mistake most of us use in decision...

Apr 2019