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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

If you’re trying to sell a Now/Next/Later roadmap, make sure you get the narrative right! Things might look a little different around here Unless you’ve…

Nov 5, 2022

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

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

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…

Mar 11

"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…

Dec 17, 2022

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

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…

Feb 27

I was recently asked to provide a few words on Product Management to the folks over at Producter, and you don’t need to ask me twice. Check out the…

Nov 11, 2022

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

In well-functioning product companies, product managers are strategic business partners who help companies make good decisions. It's a product manager’s…

Mar 22

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

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