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Stop Wishing and Start Doing

Stop Wishing and Start Doing

"I wish my leadership team would pick one strategy." "I wish my engineering team would contribute ideas to our project." "I wish our user experience team would ask for my input earlier." "I wish our sales team would stop saying yes to feature

You Don’t Want to Miss Out on This

It’s easy to have ideas. You could rattle off ten right now. I bet you hear dozens from across your organization every week. This isn’t the hard part of your job. The hard part is putting those ideas into context. It’s deciding which ideas to pursue. It’

What Your Product Team Says About Your Company Values

What Your Product Team Says About Your Company Values

Are you committed to creating a great user experience? Do you believe in data-driven product development? Are you motivated to create products that your customers love? I’m guessing most of you answered yes to all three of those questions. Let me ask you a different set of questions. How

The 4 Most Common Barriers to Outcome-Based Product Management (And How You Can Overcome Them)

The 4 Most Common Barriers to Outcome-Based Product Management (And How You Can Overcome Them)

If you read my last post on outcome-based product management and thought how do I get there, you aren’t alone. I received dozens of emails, tweets, and comments from product leaders just like you asking this very question. In an ideal world, every product manager would start at the

The Path to Better Product Decisions

I spend most of my time helping product teams make better product decisions. I’m starting to notice some patterns. I see three critical areas where we often fall short. First, we don’t always start from a holistic or systems view of the problem we are trying to solve.

The Dos and Don'ts of Hypothesis Testing

I see many product managers struggling with how to design and run good product experiments. It’s hard to know what to test and for how long. Few of us are trained to think like scientists. The tools are hard to use. We often overgeneralize our conclusions. It’s great

Let's Talk Innovation: A Conversation with Tim Meaney and Teresa Torres

In April I visited Tim Meaney and the rest of the Kindling team. For long-time Product Talk readers, you already know that I’m a big fan of idea management software and of Kindling specifically. (See related posts below.) While I have met Tim several times on his recent visits