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In well-functioning product companies, product managers are strategic business partners who help companies make good decisions. It's a product manager’s job to challenge the status quo and to question the assumptions that underpin any initiative. In well-functioning product…

Mar 22

I had a little unexpected newsletter break last week, although not in the traditional sense. I actually wrote a full newsletter, only to realise that I’d basically covered the topic before. Not just similar, but all my points and suggestions were pretty much exactly the same! So…

Mar 11

I’ve been in love with technology and all the things it can help us achieve since I was, like, 6 years old and saw my first computer. That was quite a while ago now, but I’m still amazed every day (except by blockchains, obviously). There’s been a lot of talk about how tools like…

3 hr ago

I gave a talk recently about product management not being like the books, and how that’s OK. One of my opening slides stated that “Product management is a uniquely hard job” (and I clearly can’t resist meme-ing whatever the occasion). Why is it hard?

Feb 27

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I was recently told, apparently with a straight face: "If a company gets a direct request from a customer, that is not on the backlog or on an ideas…

Feb 20

The biggest lie in software development is that all the tickets in the backlog are going to get done. Now, we have to call out that product managers and…

Feb 4

From time to time, product managers are going to find themselves dragged into areas they don’t want to be in. I’ll talk about that on a broader level…

Jan 28

Back at the end of 2021, I put out a Tweet offering mentorship to the product management community. I expected a handful of replies. I got 76. This…

Jan 21

Product Management is, or should be, a key strategic role for any company building products. It’s strange that, in 2023, we still have companies filling…

Jan 14

I love the old story about how the great 8-bit game duo Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond (RIP) came up with the groundbreaking ZX Spectrum game “Batman…

Jan 7

I think we can all agree that product management would be substantially improved if Morgan Freeman could read out our roadmap updates. New Podcast…

Dec 22, 2022

"Back to the Future" originally didn't star Michael J Fox but Eric Stoltz. After a few weeks of shooting, the director and screenwriter felt it wasn't…

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