I’ve trained 100s of PMs. The 50% who are below average share one trait: They don’t lead well. Sean McVay, the winningest active NFL coach, is a must-know example about leadership for PMs. Here are 10 lessons from his leadership style to focus on: 1. Lead by example As Sean says, leadership, team culture, strategy […]
So, you want to become a PM. But, you haven’t coded, and you didn’t go to a brand-name school. You’re not sure you can do this. Are you curious and hardworking? Then you can. Here’s your process:1. Develop a long-term plan2. Put in the extra work3. Develop PM experience 1. The first thing you need […]
5 common problems with creators who aren’t growing: 1. Content is all over the place. Have a consistent through line in your messages and work. Build an expectation with your audience. Don’t talk about food, buddha, PM, and AC Milan together. A master throughliner to model off of is Teresa Torres. 2. Content volume isn’t high […]
Have you ever told a relative what you do, only to receive a puzzled look? Product management, as a field, is new. Our parent’s generation didn’t even consider it. Your average non-techie has no idea what it is even about. How did Product Management as a job come to be? Has it always been around, […]
It’s so easy to focus on shipping exciting new features that sometimes we forget the importance of completing tech debt stories, and creating minimal technical (tech) debt along the way. This is true for engineers, designers, product managers and builders of all stripes. In fact, in my experience, it is hardest for CEOs. It is […]
A Guide for Product Teams As product leaders, we are constantly asked to share a roadmap of features we intend to build. As well intentioned as the product literati that argues against roadmaps are, after pit stops in product across 6 tech companies, I have generally always seen them produced. They provide clarity to customers, […]
Let’s find companies who are going through product. Because who cares about Unicorns? We have unicorns and decacorns as terms, but for product professionals, what matters more – market cap, or how that market cap was achieved? Product people do not care about the market cap. Product people do not care about slow growth companies […]
How to think like the best product people in everyday life We all regularly build products in our lives. We encounter a problem. Say, how to organize our email. We develop a system. We iterate. This is product building, everyday. The fact that we are all building products everyday means we should also all improve […]
🤔 A Mystifying, New Field 💭 “So, what does a product growth manager do?” 💭 “Isn’t that the same thing as growth?” 💭 “Doesn’t every PM focus on growth?” I get it. When it comes to buzz-wordery, Product Growth has tons of it. But the field matters. And what people do in it is interesting. […]
No investment is better than an investment in yourself. As a business person who is paid to think, write, and communicate, you may want to consider an investment in an iPad. There are four main reasons why. 1/ Drawing figures How many times have you sat down to make a figure, only to find out […]