If a product is an airplane, then a product manager is the co-pilot of this plane. The first pilot is CEO. This analogy is rather relevant today because, in many software development companies, product management attracts much attention and get a dominant role in the company’s strategy. Read More
A product roadmap is a powerful armory in product manager’s hands. As any strategist is able to manage his armory and knows how and when to apply it, so product managers should also be able to tactically apply their advanced product roadmap and use special tools for these goals. Read More
Managers who are able to determine priorities are successful strategists.
There are dozens of smart technologies and methods to improve these skills. However, any methodology is effective in its context and can have absolutely no sense in applying to a particular product. Read More
In the time of high competitiveness, it’s important to focus on key priorities. Competitors constantly release new features. There are so many of them, you don’t even have time to learn all of them. Your users suggest improvements, give you advices and your colleagues are coming up with ideas all the time. There are a lot of updates happening constantly. Read More
When you’re a Product Manager, one of the must-read things is the famous Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz written 20 years ago.
<…> A good product manager is the CEO of the product. A good product manager takes full responsibility and measures themselves in terms of the success of the product. They are responsible for right product/right time and all that entails. <…> Read More
My team is a huge fan of sprints and backlogs when it comes to planning projects. But the more we dig into project management, the more negative patterns we observe. One of them relates to the backlog and how it turns into a place where features die. Sounds familiar? Then keep on reading. Read More
Even if you work with a great product team who cares about the customer, chances are you might be building another Frankenstein product with lots of stinking features. How come? Read More
In contrast to the traditional project management methods, Scrum doesn’t have classical roles of a product manager, project manager, and so on. A typical Scrum team has only three roles – Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development team. In this article, we’ll define what it takes to be a truly great product owner. Read More
Many entrepreneurs find it frustrating to be involved in the application development process from the business side. In fact, collaboration between business and IT is a problem for many enterprises that has a negative impact on delivery speed and the overall project success. Read More
