Product people are usually not short on books. Many of us already have shelves full of the essentials, the ones we reach for again and again. I’ve gathered those classics…
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There’s an unspoken truth lurking underneath every product roadmap review and every quarterly planning cycle. Most product leaders feel uncomfortable admitting it publicly, yet privately acknowledge it with a quiet…
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Agile was supposed to make us faster, sharper, and closer to customers. Yet more than a decade on, most companies are still mid-transformation. This is why agile transformations fail: we…
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I once greenlit a “quick win” that was supposed to make a customer demo sparkle. Small feature, tiny scope, easy engineering. Halfway through the sprint, the team tripped over a…
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When I talk about Lean Roadmapping, I always come back to the principle that makes Lean so effective: build, measure, learn. Out of those three, the real magic is in…
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Product metrics are the compass of product management. They show how customers interact with your product, what value they get from it, and how those behaviors connect to business outcomes.…
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Perfect roadmaps fail because they waste time on polish, discourage change, and hide uncertainty instead of guiding strategy. In product management, perfection comes at a cost. I know because I…
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Perfect roadmaps fail because they waste time on polish, discourage change, and hide uncertainty instead of guiding strategy. In product management, perfection comes at a cost. I know because I…
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If you’ve ever looked at a product roadmap and thought, “This looks more like a delivery checklist than a strategy”, you’re not alone. Too many roadmaps are still little more…
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We’ve always said the job of a Product Manager is to sit at the intersection of what’s technically feasible, what’s desirable to users, and what’s viable for the business. That…
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