There is a huge number of things you need to do to be a successful product manager. And when you are starting in this role or trying to improve your current performance, there usually isn’t much clarity on what areas to focus on. There is also a tendency to “shelter” on the activities that are […]
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For more than 10 years I have been obsessed with Product Development. And since I have a result oriented demeanor, I’ve always tried to measure it and set goals for improvement. The problem is that the things that are easy to measure most of the time do not mater. Quality of code, number of deploys, lines
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Note: this article was originally published in the Mind The Product blog. I have hired product managers for a while now, and worked with dozens. And since I come from a tech background, I have been asked many times (and I asked myself) if product managers should have some tech skills. Should they know how
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When building digital products there are a lot of things that need our attention. If you are a Product Manager or somehow leading the product development, probably one of the top problems you may face is that there seems to be an endless stream of “urgent” things that require your attention. And that quickly leads to
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We keep using the MVP term for the wrong thing. There has been a lot of debates, articles, and information about what we should call an MVP (and I even discussed introducing “MVE” for experiments). But I want to focus on a particular miss use I see in most companies, especially when the term is
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I consider myself a fan of Agile and the values and principles that the Manifesto states. In fact, I’ve been using agile for many years and I saw how many teams changed and improved over the years through this practices. I’m currently working on an agile transformation at the organization level, trying to bring agile
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Last week I had the chance to attend to the MTPCon in San Francisco, the best conference in the world about Product Management, and it was awesome. This post is mostly for me 🙂 I remember things a lot better when I write them down. But I thought I may share it anyway to see
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Recientemente tuve la experiencia de ver a fondo una compañía “de producto” sin estructura de Product Management. Este es un pequeño análisis de los problemas que detecté y una ratificación de la importancia del rol de producto. “Debería funcionar…” Mi primer impresión fue bastante buena. Tenían un modelo innovador donde áreas que en otras compañías
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This is a post in 3 parts, but the publication order got somewhat messy :). This article should be part 3 (How to prioritize with Product Discovery and rapid experiments), and then I will go back to parts 1 and 2. The reason is that I think Part 3 is so valuable that I could
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(Y otros 20 muy valiosos…) En el último tiempo una de las preguntas más frecuentes que recibo es “que libro me recomendas para…” (inserte tema random desde “Discovery” hasta “Gestión del tiempo”). Me pareció un gran insight para escribir un artículo resumiendo libros increíbles en ciertas temáticas que hacen al Product Management, Discovery, y disciplinas
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