Want to Move a Strategy Forward? Tell a Good Story
Storytelling is a critical skill for product managers and designers during ideation and solution discovery.
Measuring Long vs Short
As Peter Drucker famously said “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. Identifying proper success metrics is a critical part of any product strategy. But, to really drive insights from your metrics, measuring alone will not lead to sustained product success.
Why Curiosity Matters in Product Management
In my experience, the product manager community has always been a melting pot of diverse backgrounds, education, and pathways into the role. Entry points into product management can come through engineering, subject matter expertise, implementation consulting or even sales. We can do better - open up our hiring practices and further expand the pool of potential product managers - beyond a specific set of degrees, skills or backgrounds.
Defensive Product Management
Most product managers are architects and designers by nature. We dream up features and marvel at our clever ability to solve the world's business requirements with new algorithms, concepts and paradigms.