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You Aren't The Only One Who Can Have Innovative Ideas

One of the hardest parts of product management is making visible how you evaluate ideas and make decisions about what to build. Everyone has ideas. Rarely are you sitting around dreaming up what to build next. More likely, your wading through feature request after feature request trying to identify what&

When Helping Hurts

A sales rep comes to you and asks for a small product change to satisfy a prospective client. Your manager wants to A/B test her latest idea. Your friend in client services keeps asking for an updated FAQ even though nobody reads the one you do have. One of

Do One Thing Well

Most product managers know that your product should do one thing well. If you do one thing well, your customers will know exactly when and why to use your product. If you do one thing well, you have a hope of being the best at what you do. If you

Global Product Management Talk: Writing Compelling User Stories

Yesterday, I was the guest speaker on the Global Product Management Talk hosted by Cindy Solomon. For yesterday's show, Roger Cauvin was the co-host. We were discussing how to write compelling user stories. As many of you know, this is a topic that I've covered in-depth

Remembering Steve

One year ago today, Steve Jobs passed away. I can't think of any other person of whom I feel more conflicted. It's hard to argue with Steve's results. After all, he brought us the candy-colored iMacs, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad, and

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Writing User Stories

Over the last few weeks, we've taken a look at several aspects of user story writing. As the primary means of kicking off conversations between product and engineering in most Agile environments, user story writing is a critical skill to develop. Let's review where we'

Writing Acceptable Acceptance Criteria

You've written your user stories, engineers have accepted them, development is in progress. Now what? More often than not, odds are you left off one of the most important parts of a user story - the acceptance criteria. Acceptance criteria tells you when a user story is ready