Use an Extended Kanban Board for Product Planning
Do you need a quick way to check and share project status? Use an extended Kanban board for planning and status. Move items from one work...
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Product Team Insights
Steve Johnson
- 5 min
ASPIRE to your capabilities
The likelihood of product success dramatically increases when you leverage existing competencies. Image by Pexels from Pixabay So you’ve...
Steve Johnson
- 3 min
Organizing a Product Portfolio
A portfolio or suite of products must be managed like a product with a target persona, positioning, and pricing. Microsoft boils its...
Steve Johnson
- 4 min
Do We Need Product Management?
A product playbook ensures you build the product right and build the right product. Product managers are in charge of whipping up all the...
Steve Johnson
- 3 min
What Isn’t Product Management
In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support [individual] customers or they support the market. —...
Steve Johnson
- 3 min
Design is a Skill (that I don’t have)
As a product manager, I really appreciate design. I know I’m not good at it myself, but I notice poor design literally everywhere. You’ve...
Steve Johnson
- 3 min
Quality Doesn’t Matter (until it does)
When you dictate the scope, resources, and date, your team has no choice but to deliver sub-par quality. Have you heard the metaphor of...
Steve Johnson
- 2 min
Customer Discovery: the product leader's secret weapon
Perhaps the product leader's most important responsibility is customer discovery.
Steve Johnson
- 3 min
Do Product Managers Need To Be Technical?
Many job postings for product managers require computer science degrees. But is that really necessary? How technical do product managers...
Grant Hunter
- 13 min
The Ultimate Guide to Product Strategy
To have a good product strategy, identify and prioritize the product initiatives that result in company and product success.
Grant Hunter
- 4 min
Product Management Adoption in Organizations
3 key lifecycle stages in adopting product management: pre-product management, introducing product management, & scaling product management.
Grant Hunter
- 6 min
Create a professional development plan for your product managers
You have a roadmap for your products. Do you have a roadmap to develop the skills for your team?
Grant Hunter
- 4 min
Great Product Management Teams Practice Collaboration
Product managers and developers don't practice collaboration. Instead, they toss documents back and forth, trying to anticipate...
Steve Johnson
- 10 min
Product Roadmap: Should you build one at all?
Product roadmaps are key deliverables looking beyond what you’re doing now and where you'll be a year or more from today.
Steve Johnson
- 5 min
Mergers and acquisitions: challenge or opportunity for product?
Mergers and acquisitions are complex business transactions that bring about significant changes in almost every department.
Steve Johnson
- 4 min
Product managers: Ethics and AI
Product managers and Ethics in AI: Please learn and apply the Three Laws of Robotics.
Steve Johnson
- 8 min
The Secrets to Product Success
What is the secret to product success? Over the last few decades, the industry learned what works and what doesn’t. In general, we’ve...
Steve Johnson
- 4 min
Product Management and Digital Transformations
Transformations often fail because they focus on the adoption of a specific method within a single department.
Steve Johnson
- 4 min
Product Management Monday
How to make time for the strategic role of product management.
Steve Johnson
- 3 min
Product Management and Customer Advisory Boards
Validate your strategy and roadmap is a customer advisory board—a small group of key customers.
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