#ProductManagement
Learn from your mistakes.
Adapt quickly.
Champion your team’s creativity.
Innovation thrives on resilience.
Why Most Advanced Yet Acceptable Products win: MAYA dictates that the ideal design sits between solutions that are completely novel and entirely familiar. Be too novel and customers will tune you out. Be too familiar and customers will look right past you.
#ProductManagement #ProductDesign #Innovation #UXDesign
https://every.to/p/the-most-advanced-yet-acceptable-products-win
The value of our work in software. Drew's first tattooing mistake. Brad's take on your "capacity problem." Is given/when/then in the wrong hands? The faith you may have misplaced. Was that a Steely Dan reference? Helicopter parenting, TDD, TCR, scaling, and (of course) microservices.
There's a little something here for everyone.
#agile #podcast #software #softwareengineering #productmanagement #technicalagility
New Fork, Who Dis? Will a New ‘@OpenTofu’ Brand Win #Enterprise Buyers Away from @Hashicorp and #Terraform?
My latest blog for @Sageable:
#Hashicorp #OpenTF #OpenTofu #OpenSource #marketing #branding #productmanagement
A team working within the framework of product bets needs to intentionally curate the data that informs its decisions. It’s not enough to ship ideas that seem good or get “validated” and then wait for your NPS scores or trailing indicators to reflect the impact.
✨ FRESH on I Manage Products
Getting your first job as a product manager can seem impossible. Thankfully it's not! I share my advice on how to break into a career in product management.
#prodmgmt #ProductManagement #job #career
https://imanageproducts.com/getting-your-first-job-as-a-product-manager/
✨ FRESH on I Manage Products
Getting your first job as a product manager can seem impossible. Thankfully it's not! I share my advice on how to break into a career in product management.
#prodmgmt #ProductManagement #job #career
https://imanageproducts.com/getting-your-first-job-as-a-product-manager/
I have a degree in engineering, and never worked a day in my life as an engineer.
The last SQL query I wrote was during the George W. Bush Administration.
I envisioned, manifested, and delivered working software products in enterprise organizations.
I am professional #generalist.
The best software engineers, architects, and leaders aren’t coding, but unblocking those around them.
It is an art and science. From a #ProductManagement perspective, this is a Bad Take™
Addressing hard problems is like building a puzzle.
Each piece represents a new insight, a new step towards a possible solution.
Embrace the puzzle. The picture will become clearer.
Threads will struggle to survive from Guy Kawasaki
Main Site: https://www.analyse.asia/product-evangelism-and-canva-with-guy-kawasaki/
Full Youtube video: https://youtu.be/-0BJir2aT9I
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#shorts #productevangelism #productmanagement #productmarketfit #commmunity #communitymanagement #canva #apple #guykawasaki #threads #twitter
Spent Monday afternoon at the mechanic, and came across the Iron Laws of Quality™.
The project management triangle (i.e. triple constraint, iron triangle, or project triangle) is a model of the constraints for projects.
It has been used since at least the 1950s.
These are the iron laws under which consultants, product managers, and founders operate and others desperately wish didn’t exist.
🌟 Hear what the buzz is all about! Our new ProdPad AI is making waves on Product Hunt. Dive into the reviews and discover why everyone's talking! 💬 #ProductHunt #Productmanagement https://www.producthunt.com/posts/prodpad-ai
Hard conversations with customers foster a culture of continuous improvement within your team.
They challenge assumptions and force #ProductManagement to confront the limitations of their thinking and their solutions.
This often leads to creative problem-solving and innovative product enhancements.
PRODUCTHEAD: Training wheels and learned helplessness
This week’s #ProductManagement newsletter lovingly curated by Jock Busuttil (@jock) features Teresa M. Amabile & Steven J. Kramer, John Cutler, Kevin Aguesseau and Sebastian Straube
https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-training-wheels-and-learned-helplessness/
PRODUCTHEAD: Training wheels and learned helplessness
This week’s #ProductManagement newsletter lovingly curated by Jock Busuttil (@jock) features Teresa M. Amabile & Steven J. Kramer, John Cutler, Kevin Aguesseau and Sebastian Straube
https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-training-wheels-and-learned-helplessness/
Pre American Enlightenment, the product of societal norms, infrastructure, markets, and laws meant existence under monarchies, totalitarians and fascists was not great.
That's why the hard fork of USA: the Product was a game-changer, an experiment in real-time FAFO:
#democracy #Enlightenment #Renaissance #Paganism #FirstPrinciples #ProductManagement #ecosystems #SystemsThinking
🎯 The worst question a Product Manager can ask after a sprint is How do I accept this? Always aim for crystal-clear acceptance criteria. Lack of clarity can cost more than you think! 💡 #ProductManagement #DoneIsDone
The Expectation for Change in Tech is much faster according to Guy Kawasaki
Main Site: https://www.analyse.asia/product-evangelism-and-canva-with-guy-kawasaki/
Full Youtube video: https://youtu.be/-0BJir2aT9I
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#shorts #productevangelism #productmanagement #productmarketfit #commmunity #communitymanagement #canva #apple #guykawasaki
This thought process of sense-making from @ben is Step 0 for #ProductManagement teams considering #GenerativeAI:
To chase away the Merchants of Woo™, I suggest getting a transparent and sensible answer to this question in Step 0.
https://werd.io/2023/ai-is-not-a-paradigm-shift-but-it-could-be
Hard conversations are also essential for uncovering pain points that might not be evident through other feedback channels.
Customers may be experiencing issues or frustrations that they haven’t been able to convey clearly.
Candid discussions reveal these hidden challenges.
If you want to enhance your leadership toolkit, I'd really recommend my new e-course, "Essential Coaching Skills for Product Leaders". As someone with over 25 years of product experience, I've designed this course to be a game-changer for you.
This intensive five-week journey will provide you with invaluable coaching skills that will set you apart in the world of #productleadership.
Sign up today. #ProductManagement #ProfessionalDevelopment
https://www.kateleto.com/courses/essential-coaching-skills-for-product-leaders#how-will-we-work
How do you manage to reconcile the requirements of #SEO experts, #a11y experts, #UX experts and marketing ? Do you have a process and is it a case by case compromise ? Or lock them in a room until they agree ? #productmanagement
If your product brings good enough news, communities will form around it: Guy Kawasaki
Main Site: https://www.analyse.asia/product-evangelism-and-canva-with-guy-kawasaki/
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#shorts #productevangelism #productmanagement #productmarketfit #commmunity #communitymanagement #canva #apple #guykawasaki
@twostraws Between the pre-pre-order mess and this, the good news is that a #ProductManagement job is probably going to open up at #Apple soon.
New Fork, Who Dis? Will a New ‘@OpenTofu’ Brand Win #Enterprise Buyers Away from @Hashicorp and #Terraform?
My latest blog for @Sageable:
#Hashicorp #OpenTF #OpenTofu #OpenSource #marketing #branding #productmanagement
Anybody have a #superversive story they want to tell?
https://www.superversive.co/blog/right-kind-of-wrong
#storytelling #WritingCommunity #content #ProductManagement #ServiceDesign #B2B #startup
Hear Guy Kawasaki explain why brand perception is influenced by the product bringing good news.
Main Site: https://www.analyse.asia/product-evangelism-and-canva-with-guy-kawasaki/
Full Youtube video: https://youtu.be/-0BJir2aT9I
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#shorts #productevangelism #productmanagement #productmarketfit #commmunity #communitymanagement #canva #apple #guykawasaki
Expectation Types to Manage — Four main expectations to manage: Timeline, Scope, Quality, and Cost. Don't underestimate any of them; they're all interconnected and equally important. #ProductManagement #Delivery
This might be the most succinct articulation of Product Ops that I've seen "maintainers of the Value Stream Network"
"”I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
-Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"
A successful product manager is a master of adaptability and a champion of flexibility.
Keep your eyes on the product goal and adjust the course as needed.
Pivot. Pivot. Pivot.
Hiring great people can transform a team or a business - but it can take time. A Role Canvas activity can help to create complete clarity about the role you are hiring for before you get to the interview stage - check out my free to download Role Canvas and try it out. https://www.kateleto.com/tools-and-practices #productmanagement #rolecanvas
@misc @noturtlesoup17 @JessTheUnstill
This aligns with the #ProductManagement strategy of being *the* place for #AntiNormie users to manifest their issues (for a fee, even better!), and also further dismisses the pretense of being ad-supported: https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/pithy-branded-content?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
As a product manager, my mantra is simple:
Hard problems are the heart of progress.
They push us to think differently and collaborate deeply.
As Marcus Aurelius said best, the obstacle becomes the way.
PRODUCTHEAD: Is there a standard product development life cycle?
This week’s #ProductManagement newsletter lovingly curated by Jock Busuttil (@jock) features Janna Bastow and Government Digital Service
#prodmgmt #ProductLifeCycle #LifeCycle
https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-is-there-a-standard-product-development-life-cycle/
PRODUCTHEAD: Is there a standard product development life cycle?
This week’s #ProductManagement newsletter lovingly curated by Jock Busuttil (@jock) features Janna Bastow and Government Digital Service
#prodmgmt #ProductLifeCycle #LifeCycle
https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-is-there-a-standard-product-development-life-cycle/
“decentralized communication: the more teams who have issues develop a line of sight into the teams who cause issues, the feedback loop shortens and all sides gain deeper clarity into how #LocallyOptimalChoices affect their peers.”
- Chad Sanderson
#data #engineering #DataGovernance #teams #producers #consumers #ProductManagement
Hear Guy Kawasaki breaks down what Product Evangelism means for companies.
Main Site: https://www.analyse.asia/product-evangelism-and-canva-with-guy-kawasaki/
Full Youtube video: https://youtu.be/-0BJir2aT9I
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#shorts #productevangelism #productmanagement #productmarketfit #commmunity #communitymanagement #canva #apple #guykawasaki
“However, AlixPartners warned that neither layoffs nor AI will be sufficient to ensure long-term profitability.
“Companies should instead adopt a ‘transformational operational change,’ the consulting firm said.
“Building focused and structured collaboration among all key facets of your business is critical during leaner times”
https://www.cfodive.com/news/more-tech-sector-layoffs-coming-alixpartners/692644/
#layoffs #EmployeeEngagement #collaboration #business #ProductManagement
Deion Sanders has demonstrated wildly effective #ProductManagement in #CollegeFootball over the course of only two sprints.
This call by @TNLNYC is directionally accurate:
Constructive visions for the future are exactly what effective #ProductManagement is supposed to be:
- have a vision
- persuade people to give their time, money and energy
- distort the current reality field into manifesting the future vision
I wrote a thing about Xitter *chortle* #ProductManagement strategy https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/pithy-branded-content?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
In product development, it´s probably a sign of maturity when you get to the stage where the engineers start worrying about the costs, and the accountants start worrying about the tech.
Time evaporates when you’re managing products.
What’s one critical time management tool?
A well-structured calendar.
Remember to block time for focused work and creative brainstorming along with the crush of other meetings during your week.
How to do product positioning
Doing more research into the Kano model. The Reverse category is more interesting than you'd think. Not only does it tell you what people don't like about your (planned) product, deeper analysis also shows what to do about it.
I've written the details down at https://kanomodel.substack.com/p/the-under-utilization-of-the-reverse
Keep your standards to a minimum
https://www.nortrup.dev/posts/product-management/keep-your-standards-to-a-minimum/
#ProductOperations #ProductManagement
@patrickcmiller
#DataGovernance in #ProductManagement went from being super-nerdy to front-page news.
This is gonna be a good talk! Watch live: "How Customer Feedback Loops Benefit your Bottom Line and How to Implement Them"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz3wuo7Dr1U
#WPProductTalk #Customers #Business #Product #ProductManagement
Sometimes technical #ProductManagement is all about managing engineer feelings.
Here, sit down with me. Let’s take a deep breath from our bellies. Have a sip of this ice water. Now let’s use our words and tell me what you’re feeling.
Why do you feel that way?
What would make you feel differently?
Is it okay if I go talk to [other engineering group] about this?
If you’re in #ProductManagement, have a Peloton, or are in product and use a Peloton, check out this podcast episode.
It was an interesting discussion.
What can I say, I have a face for podcasting.
For me product management, fighting for social justice, and mutual aid are all fundamentally the same practice, at least when done right.
All three are a constant "no" in the face of the tyranny of low expectations.
All three are a refusal to settle for the voices who insist we must just put up with the obviously inadequate and obviously changeable world as it is.
All three seek to bring relief to those most in need even in the smallest of ways, while never forgetting the much larger end goals of full relief.
All three are a discipline of hope.
This question could be written about any of the three:
"sure we could improve things slightly but what if we just counted on institutional inertia and the individual human capacity to adapt to misery such that all hopeful possibilities died unimagined and the hearts of our young hardened into something resembling the stones of peaches" - Pat Blanchfield
#Sofware #ProductManagement #Cybersecurity #EmbarrassmentDrivenProductManagement
@AlexJimenez
From a “horizontal” #ProductManagement perspective on user systems, #ConversationalAI without #EmbeddedFinance seems like a partial solution.
Nothing like an #Apple event to make you feel like an early hominid of a Product person.
"If you can't even articulate why the old system is bad, how do you know that the new system is going to fix it?"
https://skamille.medium.com/avoiding-the-rewrite-trap-b1283b8dd39e #technicaldebt #productmanagement
Challenges are your constant companions in product management.
Don’t try to avoid them. Face them head-on - with the right mix of data-driven strategies and courage.
Your goal is to keep learning, adapting, and leading your product towards success.
Integrate Product Owners into Many Teams to Create Good Product Goals, Part 3 https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2023/09/integrate-product-owners-into-many-teams-to-create-good-product-goals-part-3/
#ProductManagement #Strategy #Collaboration
When it comes to #GenerativeAI, to avoid poisoning the goodwill of customers, employees, and investors, #ProductManagement leaders should be introspective and find out how wicked are the strategy and culture problems related to #DataGovernance.
@CyberneticForests @haploc @jbaert
The lack of strategic investment (and attention) in governance, quality, and stewardship is a holdover from Big Data and data science hype cycles: https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/stop-envangelizing-generative-ai?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
In companies, this kind of three-dimensional chess and "optimization mindset" becomes the norm, so balls are always dropping. When balls are always dropping, there's a culture of not catching. Instead, leadership rewards teams for throwing new balls into the air and even more impressive attempts at juggling.
@jalefkowit
My questions:
Did #ProductManagement leadership staff a “red-team” before go-live?
Does leadership know what “prompt injection” means”
Who is the funded, named, and upskilled data steward curating training libraries?
Inquiring minds want to know.
@ai6yr @mjausson
I remember reading posts from 6 months ago about how regulated ecosystems were not implementing AI due to the hallucinatory nature of large language models with real-world adverse outcomes.
From a #ProductManagement perspective, I have so many #DataGovernance and #SystemsThinking-related questions: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-evangelizing-generative-ai-without-data-sam-panini?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via
There is a contradiction at the heart of lowercase-a #agile - it wants to simultaneously deliver value (be right) and learn (be wrong). As a result of trying to do both, it often succeeds at neither.
The remedy is to untangle discovery from delivery - with #UX methods that are more effective at managing rapid feedback loops.
#UserResearch #ProductManagement
https://spavel.medium.com/successful-iteration-requires-going-beyond-agile-81ef0bc80798
When users go to your website, they want to browse it*. All features that compete with that goal (welcome tours, chatbot widgets, FAQ pages, content carousels) degrade the browsing experience.
Fix your website's navigation and content, rather than relying on poor bandaid solutions.
--
* yes, strictly speaking they have a *goal* in mind, but their mental model is that browsing the website will achieve that goal for them
@lightweight @nhan Yes. monopolies were part of it — I was an expert advisor once to a government anti-competition investigation against Microsoft — but decades ago, the company was also brilliant at #productManagement, something many coders not only undervalue, don't even realise exists ("unknown unknown"). They just wonder why they fail when their code is so good. 🤔
The most practical way to measure quality is to have experts look at the thing. Ideally as many experts as possible. Ideally the experts are truly experts. If 100 experts can’t find any problems, the thing is probably perfect.
#Quality #ProductDesign #ProductManagement
https://www.anthonyhobday.com/blog/20230725.html?ref=heydesigner
@katestarbird
From a #ProductManagement perspective, I’ve described sense-making as the key skill for the function to derive insights from the market, package into a feature, and then deliver a product.
Product managers in software and digital technology are information operations professionals.
If sense-making is the superpower, it’s interesting how these professionals simply couldn’t help themselves.
Stand-up comedy is #AntiFragile #ProductManagement and performance #art.
Sundays are for art.
https://sampathpanini.medium.com/anti-fragile-performance-art-e047325af830
@DAIR @dylan This sounds similar to #productmanagement conversations.
There are 2 major players in the front end analytics space: one collects everything (they legally can) by default and the other requires you to specify what you want to collect. Use case and usability aside, I feel that few organizations are equipped to have these conversations on intention.
"What should we collect and why?" is not an easy conversation, but if you have it, you're more likely to use the data.
💻🇺🇸 The DNC tech team is hiring a Head of Product
https://jobs.lever.co/dnc/fd7acb76-ef5a-461d-a4d9-dbe87ffb903c
Three sporting events, two very recent & one very old, have me thinking about the organizations I'm a part of and my role in them.
Read here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/football-chess-software-fennel-aurora/
Or as a 🧵 below 👇🏻
#Software #ProductManagement #Inclusion #ItsNotAPipelineProblem #EmbarrassmentDrivenProductManagement
In a call with a PM I mentor, I realised a big reason I'm so much less anxious now than a few years ago: being realistic with myself about priorities.
Set aside those low-priority things on the to-do list that haunt you as they spill over from week to week. There's no need to feel guilty for dropping things from your way-too-full plate because you've been focusing on what's important.
#productmanagement #product #productmanager #priorities #anxiety
Growth teams have destroyed so many products I loved. I think growth teams are an organizational anti-pattern. Growth should always be considered in a holistic user experience context. Do you agree? #UX #ProductManagement #ProductDesign
I’m back looking for work again, in 2 weeks.
It’s a shame as I was enjoying the work, and working with my team.
The realities of startups, if sales aren’t good enough to be attractive to investors or isn’t large enough to sustain the burn-rate, then cutting costs is needed.
I’m looking for anything in #Product land from #ProductManagement or Product Operations, Agile coach to being a Generalist Specialist Digital Product Technologist (my shorthand 😉 for cat herder).
Tell me you don't have faith in your core product without telling me you don't have faith in your core product. #Zoom #RemoteWork #ProductManagement
Before jumping in and hiring a development team, or asking IT to build it out, take a step back and make sure that you’ve thought it through, recognised your assumptions and proved that they are correct. Are customers really going to want this?
#ProductDesign #ProductManagement #UX #UXDesign
https://www.browserlondon.com/blog/2023/06/23/lean-product-design-a-playbook/?ref=refind
@impactology
I have a personal knowledge mastery dream: Mr. Rogers meets VisualCapitalist meets Tableau meets Fortnite meets YouTube meets Reading Rainbow meets the StarTrek universal translator.
Systems thinkers: remove the words "simply" and "just" from your vocabulary.
Anyone on the team can tell you about the problems they face. There's no value-add in throwing it back at them with "why don't you simply do things well, instead of poorly?"
If the change you're thinking of was easy to make, it would have already been made! Coming up with a 100% original idea no one's had before is very unlikely.
1/x
What an immense list of design and design-adjacent books and links shared by @vickytnz #InteractionDesign #ServiceDesign #ProductManagement #UserCentredDesign #DesignLeadership
Books-and-links-note for end of July 2023
https://medium.com/@vickytnz/books-and-links-note-for-end-of-july-2023-f64e227edd31
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PRODUCTHEAD: Who’s in charge? You or the process?
This week’s #ProductManagement newsletter lovingly curated by Jock Busuttil features Jeff Gothelf, Selena Hadzibabic, John Cutler, Roman Pichler and John Shook
#prodmgmt #process #flexibility
https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-whos-in-charge-you-or-the-process/
So I realized that after the first instance I joined shut down I never did my #Introduction post here. So here it is:
#Father to a wonderful son
#Husband to a super intelligent and stunning g wife
Kid at heart.
#biologist #Scientist by formal education
Now doing #productmanagement in #clinicaltrials #technology for #patientengagement
Here to yell and scream and learn and find new amazing things.
#pennstater #golf #golfer #basketball #fitness and #diy #woodworking are my interests. 👋🏽
"We need designs for this feature" is understood as a business need, but why is "ok so we'll need to interview 15 users" often framed as a #uxDesign need?
Designers aren't asking to talk to users because they're lonely. They're asking to talk to users to get the data they need to design *the features the business wants.*
#UserResearch is a business need. When business argues against doing it, it argues against achieving its own objectives.
While we’re trying to answer the questions above, we need to negotiate what’s possible from all perspectives. Our main job, as product managers, is to gather all the information and make or help others make the best decisions to end up with a product that customers love and that works for the business.
That’s needs a lot of communication and critical thinking skills. Nobody said #ProductManagement is easy 😅
#ProductManagement is a constant negotiation. There are always constraints, you can never have everything, so you need to negotiate what’s possible and make trade-off decisions along the way. Is our idea technically feasible? If not, what is? Is the user experience simple enough, how much business complexity can show through? Are we solving for a desired business outcome even though we’re not exactly building what a stakeholder requested?
We should normalise design/product artefacts that it takes more than one person or discipline to complete. Create collaboration inherently in the format - in the structures - of what we produce.
Designing for ADHD makes your product better for everyone: If you can get users who struggle with focus to onboard and sustain interest in your product, just think what you can do for everyone else.
https://uxdesign.cc/building-for-adhd-will-make-your-product-better-for-everyone-795eb5bc9afa
Prototyping is the catalyst for product and engineering to truly become one team, and move beyond project handoff. Eliminating handoff and iterating together is more efficient, enjoyable, and user focused… and much less risky.
https://nohandoff.org/no-handoff-between-product-and-engineering/
I know that #ProductManagement is largely about learning to say "no", but oh the joy when you get to say "yes" to a meaningful, smart request!