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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

How To Write Product Requirements That Engage Everyone on the Team

Why do you write product requirements? We used to write long product requirement documents to communicate the solution we wanted our engineering teams to build. But over time we learned that outlining every detail of the solution upfront leads to overcommitting to solutions before we know whether or not they

Product Managers Don't Own the Problem (And Designers Don't Own the Solution)

Product Managers Don't Own the Problem (And Designers Don't Own the Solution)

Imagine a product team discussing new commenting functionality on their company blog. “We should let people comment anonymously.” “That will only attract trolls. We should require real names.” “We should require unique names, but allow pseudonyms.” You won’t find a shortage of debate on this topic across the Internet.