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Areas of interest

My areas of interest (on which I take notes here) currently are: Product design design psychology Product management Note-taking…

About half of product ideas won't work

Cagan writes that about half of product ideas won't work. That's why Product discovery is necessary in product development – it enables to…

Best solutions come from collaboration in strong product teams

Tags: product management product design Even though People tend to speak about problems in terms of solutions , users and customers aren…

Building products for companies (B2B) is very different from building for consumers (B2C)

The differences stem mostly from three areas: 1) Business model 2) Product specialization & complexity 3) "Customers vs. users" Ad 1) B…

Building the right thing is a foundation of good design

Good design consists of many layers. It has to be valuable, useful, usable, findable, accessible, credible and desirable. But the most…

Customer problems vs. user problems in B2B

In B2B, especially enterprise, PMs must cater to these two groups of people that are very different. Customers (or buyers) often don't use…

Differences between strong and weak product companies

3 key differences separating the best product companies: How it views the role of technology : It's not a necessary expense that just serves…

Empowered teams

Empowered product teams are cross-functional teams who are given objectives with a desired outcome and then are accountable to achieving…

Establishing value is more important than eliminating every usability issue or having the best performance

Tags: product management product design Value is more important than usability or performance. If a product or feature doesn't bring…

Feature teams

In most companies, product teams are there just to deliver features. While they're still cross-functional, they are not empowered to…

Focusing illusion in product management

When you talk to customers about a specific problem, both sides will overestimate the problem's importance. As customers "focus" on that…

Four product risks

There are four main risks that product teams have to deal with when building something: 1) Value risk: Will customers buy this and will…

In product management, there's very little standardization

The field of PM is farily young. It's also a very complex, operational job involving collaboration with many different teams and taking into…

Minimize risk by building an MVP to learn as soon as possible without too much time and resource investment

The longer you spend building something without getting feedback from users, the bigger the risk that you won't be successful. MVP-approach…

Outcomes over outputs

Product teams should focus on producing outcomes instead of outputs. Outcome means achieving a business result. Output means releasing a…

PMs need to effectively communicate with executives

PMs regularly need to report to executives. They need to be effective in the communication with them in order to have the execs' support for…

People tend to speak about problems in terms of solutions

People naturally think and talk in terms of solutions instead of the underlying problems. When you talk to users about their problems, they…

Product designer's and product manager's work overlaps

There's an overlap between what a product designer and a product manager does. They mostly meet at research. They define use cases together…

Product discovery

Product discovery is a process in product development designed to mitigate the Four product risks . It's about figuring out what exactly…

Product leadership should give empowered teams a solid product strategy

The role of product leadership is to give empowered teams a focused and compelling product strategy that's grounded in qualitative and…

Product management is an operational role

Product management is about collaboration and coordination of efforts. Product manager's job is to decide what to build next and then help…

Product manager's job is to decide what to build next

A product manager is responsible for deciding what to build next in a product. In order to do that, the PM has to make sure that the feature…

Product managers have to have deep knowledge of 4 key areas

Tags: product management Product managers have to have deep knowledge of customers. This is part of the four things that PM's need to have…

Product strategy defines the path towards the product vision

Product strategy describes how the organization (or its part) is going to reach the product vision. It should be focused. It needs to be…

Product teams have to solve problems, not just deliver features

Focus of product teams should be on outcomes (solving problems) instead of outputs (delivering features). This Outcomes over outputs…

Product teams need context in order to best solve problems for the business autonomously

The whole product team needs to understand the customer needs and business objectives. This context is needed for product teams to be really…

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title: Product teams should prioritize opportunities, not solutions Product teams must be outcome-focused (see Outcomes over outputs…

Product vision describes the aspirational future state of a product

Product vision is a way of communicating where we want the product to be in several years. It should inspire and motivate product teams. It…

Product management 101 (Intro, definition, resposibilities)

Author: Productboard Type: #article Tags: product management Product manager's job is to decide what to build next . PM has to make sure…

Responsibilities of product leadership in strong product companies

Product leadership is crucial for making empowered teams work well. It is responsible for: Creating a strong product vision. Such vision…

Roadmaps are one of PMs most important outputs

Roadmaps are one of PMs most important outputs but their purpose and usage differ between external and internal roadmaps: External is partly…

Time to money – it typically takes several iterations to develop a product idea enough to deliver the necessary business value

Tags: product management Time to money – it typically takes several iterations to develop a product idea enough to deliver the necessary…

Types of knowledge that product managers need

In addition to enthusiasm and energy, PMs need to build different types of knowledge in order to successfully ship good products…

Understanding sales is important for PMs in enterprise

Sales plays a crucial role in enterprise SW. The sales process is also complex. PMs need to have the understanding of that role and the…

Validate ideas with real users and customers

We can't know in advance what will work for customers and users. We can mitigate the value risk by doing research – we discover the problem…


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