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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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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 involved in…

As a product manager you have a lot to consider when you’re planning and working on the vision, objectives, roadmap and backlog for your product, including where the input for…

Raise your hand if you’ve tried to prioritize your product backlog in Jira. That’s everyone, right? But who has actually succeeded at it? Yep, just about no one. (If you’re…

I defy you to show me a digital product that hasn’t required debugging techniques to fix a bug during its development. Developers are only human so we’ll always be faced…