As product managers and product leaders, one of our key activities is prioritization. We need to make sure the team is working on the right thing at the right moment to succeed. Most of the time, our goal is to decide between two features. We use and adapt existing frameworks, formulas, and tools to do […]
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Yesterday Product Direction was FINALLY released, and it became #1 new release in its category! I wanted to create a brief summary for those interested in these topics. 1 — The problem As product leaders, one of our key responsibilities to create successful products is to select the right problems to solve, those that will make a big
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Roadmaps are among the most controversial artifacts in Product Management. We are still far from having a standardized way of creating them, and that led many companies to develop versions that caused more harm than good. While there are countless ways of creating roadmaps, today I just wanted to point out a few problems to
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A 4-steps guide to interviewing Product Managers for this hard-to-check skill In the product development ecosystem, one of the critical traits to build successful solutions is to make decisions based on data. It is one of the skills required in most products regardless of category or industry. Nonetheless, it isn’t easy to assess how data
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“Modern” processes and practices for product design, development, and management are a complex topic. Let’s start by saying that there are just too many: too many different methods, tools, and ways to do your craft. Just consider the following table: There are myriad of options, without any “leader” or de-facto way of using them. Additionally,
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3 tools to measure and pivot before its too late A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to create a successful product strategy and succeed in a process that most companies fail. However, we still face a challenge: this well-crafted strategy is supposed to provide a direction for execution for approximately 9 to 24 months.
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By Making Uncertainty Explicit with the Problem, Solution, Delivery framework There is an immense amount of “How to” roadmap articles. I hope this will not be yet another one of those… As a brief introduction, we will probably agree that roadmaps have a series of challenges, including: Communicating with different audiences: how do you use a
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Product Management is really hard. In the last few months, I have written about my top 5 challenges. As I plan to write about the next 5 challenges in the near future, I just wrote this summary of the ones I have previously posted for easier access 🙂 Part I — Measuring Product Development Part II
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By reducing maintenance cost I dedicated my last article to expose the pervasive effect of maintenance cost on product development speed. (I recommend reading it first to further understand the concepts discussed in this one) But it would not be complete without some recommendations on how to keep it as low as possible. Let’s review 5
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There is a particular problem most companies struggle with: as time goes by, product development teams seem to get slower and slower. Why? Why those great developers that at first seemed to deliver tremendous value now take so long to make small changes? We can list many reasons: Dependencies: as the team grows, we split
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