Empowerment has become one of those words the Product Management industry uses so often it has stopped meaning anything. Every second job ad, conference talk, and leadership manifesto promises empowered…
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What is product roadmap software? Building a product roadmap is a vital and incredibly useful process for any product manager, and the right roadmapping software can make the difference between…
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Product teams love to say they have a prioritization problem. I hear it from PMs, Heads of Product, and CPOs. It shows up in retros, roadmap reviews, leadership meetings, and…
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Product people are usually not short on books. Many of us already have shelves full of the essentials, the ones we reach for again and again. I’ve gathered those classics…
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There’s an unspoken truth lurking underneath every product roadmap review and every quarterly planning cycle. Most product leaders feel uncomfortable admitting it publicly, yet privately acknowledge it with a quiet…
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Product Management conferences are one of the many ways people in Product can gain and share knowledge and information. Many of them have become annual events and pretty big deals…
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Agile was supposed to make us faster, sharper, and closer to customers. Yet more than a decade on, most companies are still mid-transformation. This is why agile transformations fail: we…
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I once greenlit a “quick win” that was supposed to make a customer demo sparkle. Small feature, tiny scope, easy engineering. Halfway through the sprint, the team tripped over a…
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When I talk about Lean Roadmapping, I always come back to the principle that makes Lean so effective: build, measure, learn. Out of those three, the real magic is in…
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Product metrics are the compass of product management. They show how customers interact with your product, what value they get from it, and how those behaviors connect to business outcomes.…
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