Tag: Product Management

  • Word Salad

    Word Salad

    If you can’t answer a question about your job or product in a clear, concise way you may be guilty…

  • The Product is the Variable

    The Product is the Variable

    In the past, we’ve never doubted that we were going to ship the product. In a continuous world the product…

  • Scaling OKRs Part 2: Writing OKRs from Strategy

    Scaling OKRs Part 2: Writing OKRs from Strategy

    Here’s how to take your organization’s strategy and translate it into a set of actionable, customer-centric goals using OKRs.

  • The OKR Cycle

    The OKR Cycle

    What does a complete cycle of planning and delivering on OKRs look like. Here’s an example.

  • OKRs and User Story Mapping

    OKRs and User Story Mapping

    User story mapping is a powerful tool for coming up with timely, user-focused key results with your product development team.

  • Product managers are navigators of uncertainty

    Product managers are navigators of uncertainty

    Modern product managers are not in charge of the production line in the feature factory. They job is to navigate…

  • Process Experiments

    Process Experiments

    How to use product thinking to de-risk your agile implementation.

  • 3 Steps to Telling A Compelling Story

    3 Steps to Telling A Compelling Story

    Here’s a simple, 3 step process for putting together a compelling story that can influence any team or audience into…

  • Key results should be verbs, not nouns

    Key results should be verbs, not nouns

    Key results should be outcomes, measures of human behavior. Behavior is action oriented meaning your KR’s should be verbs.

  • Case Study: How product management saved Fender guitars

    Case Study: How product management saved Fender guitars

    There are no short cuts to product success. This case study shows how Fender guitars used solid product management work…