Product Management How to Get More Out of Your Observational Data For product managers, getting the right data can give your team a critical edge, but thinking about that data in the right way can be at least as important, especially so with observational
Product Management How to Handle Failure as a Product Manager As a product manager, your team looks to you for guidance, support, and leadership. It's your job to not only shepherd a project from initial concept to a fully formed product; it's also
Product Management 11 Must-Read Newsletters for Product Managers Finding good newsletters used to be a significant challenge. Now, with so many great newsletters being published, the challenge isn't finding good newsletters––it's finding the time to read them all. Spanning multiple
Product Management 13 Essential Books for Product Managers One of the paradoxes about career development is that it's often much easier to find advice and resources about your chosen field when you're first starting out and have little real experience. As
Product Management Why Product Managers Should Care About Microconversions Journeys. Experiences. Delight. Sometimes, the world of product management can seem a little... whimsical. And, to some extent, it should. After all, the products we build every day are often designed to solve
Product Management So You Want to Be a Product Manager? Whether you're a brand-new hire fresh out of school or gearing up for your fifth major product launch, the humble Product Manager (PM) is arguably one of the most important roles in any
Product Management Move Slowly and Don't Break Stuff: Learning from Product Design Failures When Facebook decided to name its headquarters' official street address in California's Menlo Park as 1 Hacker Way, it was a nod to the company's product development ethos that had driven such incredible,
Product Management Does Your Product Tell a Story? Product managers (PMs) face many challenges, not least of which is balancing the responsibilities of shepherding a product from development to launch and the many duties that come with it. However, despite the
Product Management Everything You Need to Know About Your First Major Product Launch Launching a product is exciting. It's often the culmination of months, if not years, of work--not to mention the skills, talents, and aspirations of dozens or even hundreds of people. It can also
Product Management How to Boost Engagement by Celebrating Completed Tasks When it comes to retention, many companies focus almost exclusively on those crucial first few days after a user installs an app or signs up for a product. Although this period is crucial
Product Management The Do’s and Don'ts of Product Tour UX Virtual product tours are one of the best ways to highlight the value that your products can offer your prospective users. They're ideal for showing users around your UI, introducing new features, and
Product Management The 3 Golden Rules of Push Notifications For UX practitioners, push notifications can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they're an incredibly effective way of encouraging users to take action within our products, re-engage lapsed users, and provide
Product Management Balancing Usability with Innovative Design We all make mistakes. Sometimes we make design decisions that aren't best for our users, or overlook important feedback even if that feedback is valuable. Even the most highly skilled UX teams make
Product Management The Product Manager’s Guide to Change Management Change management is probably the single most important skill a product leader should master in her career. It is the skill that separates the majority from those who consistently and successfully bring together the entire organization to deliver the best product and experiences to their customers.
Product Management Interview with John Cutler: Multiple hat-wearer and product development nut I’ve been reading John Cutler’s writing for a while now and been fascinated by his ability to turn complex topics into simple principles. We ended up talking about change management, psychological safety, product team dynamics and much more.
Product Management Zero to 100, increasing product development speed — A Product team backstory At NomNom, we’ve been through a series of iterations in the way we work. The most impactful so far has been adopting and adapting Burndown from Drift and we wanted to share some of our war stories — what we changed, what was hard and what was great about it. Enjoy!
Success Stories Jogs vs Sprints — A product team backstory Getting his inspiration from Basecamp, Mark shares the challenges behind adopting and adapting product management practices and the compromises that need to be made when introducing new processes.
Product Management Customer-Driven Development — An Interview with David Cancel, CEO at Drift. we had the opportunity to chat with David Cancel, CEO at Drift. We discussed how to align product and engineering teams around customers, the reason why so many businesses fail to build customer-centric cultures and the 3 most important things that a product leader needs to be constantly working on.
Product Management Continuous Product Discovery — An Interview with Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach. We’ve admired Teresa’s work for a long time. Her writing on Product Talk has impacted product teams around the world and helped shape our current understanding of what it means to be truly customer-driven in the context of product management.
Product Management 7 Blog Posts That Will Change the Way you Think about Product Roadmaps Here we look at seven of our favourite blog posts on product roadmaps. Each post will challenge the way you think about planning and will offer a different view when it comes to executing your product vision. Here are the key takeaways: