Product Management

What is the real difference between Project and Product Organizations?

My last 2 work experiences were on companies that were trying to move from a project based organization to a product based organization. Being a “product person” I love this challenge. But I found out that there were many myths about what the Project vs Product difference really is about. For instance, I heard the […]

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My Top 5 challenges of Product Management and Development — Part V

Alignment, Goal Setting and Bonuses Note: This is part 5 of a 5 part series, I highly recommend reading previous parts if you haven’t. You can read the first one here. One of the highest impact activities at management levels is goal setting. Defining an appropriate process and standards can create the right environment for teams

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My Top 5 challenges of Product Management and Development — Part IV

Roadmaps and stakeholder communication Note: This is part IV of a 5 part series, I highly recommend reading previous parts if you havent. You can read the first one here. I feel I’m cheating with this challenge because both Roadmap and Stakeholders can have their own separate chapters. But the combination of creating a useful, updated,

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My Top 5 challenges of Product Management and Development — Part III

Recruiting talent, defining career paths and maintaining “balanced” teams Note: this is part III of a 5 part series. You can find the 1st here, and 2nd here. I choose talent as my third big challenge. There are obvious difficulties in hiring the non-abundant technical talent: high salary demands, high “benefits” demands, having interesting and challenging technologies/products… and I

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My Top 5 challenges of Product Management and Development — Part II

Fostering a culture of outcomes, discovery, and experimentation Note: this is the second part of a 5-part series on Product challenges. If you haven’t already read the first part you can find it here. My second biggest product challenge is related to aligning the entire organization towards a culture of outcomes, discovery, and experimentation. Let split

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How to estimate the tremendous value of technical debt work

When teams face the challenge of prioritizing technical debt, most of them (or at least the ones I have worked with) end up arguing “intangible” value or some variation of “this will benefit us in the future so we can’t really measure it today”. Invariably this makes stakeholders want to avoid this “not-so-visible value” type

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Innovación cómo consecuencia de un proceso de Product Development

Una historia de #BestProduct — Parte II Si no leíste la Parte I de nuestra historia de #BestProduct (#BestCode), te recomiendo que lo hagas para tener mejor contexto de esta serie. También puedes leer la 3er parte. Hoy narramos la segunda parte: un “ciclo” (considerando que los días nunca son iguales) en la vida de un Product

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