In this series we ask members of the product community what they’d tell their younger product self if they had the chance.
In this post, we hear advice from Chris Greiner, Product Manager Analytics.
Everything is a trade of and you will never hit the target because you are smart…
I listen to a podcast all about data and statistics in the news, which is called More or Less.
In the podcast they investigate numbers that have been raised in the news in order to question whether the stat is accurate and what it actually means, and one of the…
In this series we ask members of the product community what they’d tell their younger product self if they had the chance.
In this post, we hear advice from Poonam Shrivastava, Product Manager.
Thinking from first principles, to peel problems or situations like an onion, understand the current state and…
Scrum takes its name from rugby, where a scrum is where a mini-team of players huddle together to push their opponents and take control of the ball. In a product delivery sense it is a framework that helps teams work together, encouraging close working, focused attention and continuous improvement.
I…
In this series we ask members of the product community what they’d tell their younger product self if they had the chance.
In this post, we hear advice from Inês Lourenço, Product Manager.
The skill to develop would definitely be empathy. …
The Japanese word “kanban” means “visual board” or a “sign”, and it has been used in the sense of a definition of a production process since the 1950s.
I like it as an approach as it is simple to understand and implement, although ensuring you stay true to the methodology…
I get a productivity email from Microsoft every month which advises me that I have in the region of 50–60 “active collaborators” over the course of a month, by which they mean people who I email, meet or chat with at least a few times.
It’s in the nature of…
Product managers spend a lot of time in meetings.
The “productivity” email I get from Microsoft, based on my Outlook and Teams activity, tells me that I interact with 50–60 people a month, and spend around 25% of my time in meetings.
That’s a lot of time sitting around talking…
When it comes to prioritizing work in an organization, there’s one thing that always gets people’s attention. And that’s money!
People will push product teams to deliver features because it leads to one new sale, two new sales, a 1% increase in monthly revenue. …
I’ve written previous about being an introvert and what that entails, and one of the elements of being an introvert is that I don’t go around shouting about how great I am at what I do.
I’m more likely to be going about my business quietly, just getting things done…
