product manager

Digital Transformation and Product Management

Digital transformations often focus on new technologies, agile practices, and new business models. While these are undoubtedly important, a further…

7 years ago

Why Product People Should Care About Business Strategy

As product people, we can be very fond of the products we manage. While it’s good to care about them,…

7 years ago

Be a Balanced Product Leader, Not a Feature Broker or Product Dictator

Being an effective product leader is not easy: It requires embracing people's ideas as well as saying no, being neither…

7 years ago

Leading Through Shared Goals

Ensuring that development teams and stakeholders are moving in the same direction is crucial to achieving product success. But aligning…

7 years ago

Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders and Team Members

Experiencing disagreement and conflict is part of our job as product managers and product owners. We work with a broad…

7 years ago

The T-Shaped Product Professional

Product management is a multi-faceted discipline. This makes our work interesting and varied. But it can also make it hard…

8 years ago

Boost Your Empowerment

As product people—product managers and product owners—we usually don’t hold any positional power. Unlike a line manager, we cannot reward…

8 years ago

Product Manager vs. Product Owner

For years, people have debated what the difference between the product manager and the product owner role is, if the…

8 years ago

Making Unanimous Product Decisions

Unanimity is a powerful approach to take advantage of the collective wisdom of the stakeholders and development team members and…

8 years ago

Use Decision Rules to Make Better Product Decisions

As product managers and product owners, we make a myriad of decisions—from shaping the product strategy and determining the product…

8 years ago