Strengthen your product management skills by exploring strategies for prioritizing features, aligning product development with business goals, and understanding customer motivations.
Ideation and Problem Solving
Dependency-based sequencing is a powerful technique for managing complex projects. By mapping out the interrelationships between tasks and prioritizing based on dependencies, you can minimize rework, enable smoother workflows, and achieve project goals faster.
Product Strategy and Management
“If the dev team has to go through another pivot, I don’t think we’ll survive.” — The chilling words of my tech lead at Aristotle. In the startup world, change is not just constant—it’s a matter of survival. The graveyard for most startups comes from rushing to
Product Strategy and Management
Let's imagine a customer has requested you to build super-fine role-based permissions into your app. You know that building it would mean that it causes more issues than it fixes or at least that's what it feels like from the sound of the request. How do
Ideation and Problem Solving
When you've got a good grasp of a customer's Job to be Done (JTBD), what are the next steps to craft a solution? There's a lot of advice on how to conduct your own JTBD-style interviews, cluster the data, and synthesize the findings. It&
Personal Growth and Leadership
When you're starting to adopt Shape Up [https://basecamp.com/shapeup/] at your company it's common to feel like the concept of fixed time and variable scope [https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.2-chapter-03#fixed-time-variable-scope] is daunting to both stakeholders/leadership and builders: * Stakeholders are unsettled by
Product Design and Development
Have you ever felt it was difficult to ship on time? Isn't it true that understanding what works is nearly impossible without having to build and ship different solutions to understand which one works? Is there any better advice than to "ship it before you're
Product Design and Development
Bob Moesta and Re-Wired group four forces model explained along with a personal example
Product Strategy and Management
If you're starting a new service-based business, there are tons of things learn. It's never been easier to start a business, but it's also never been harder to get it off the ground. The following 8 lessons have helped me along the way starting
Product Strategy and Management
"People convince themselves, we convince them of nothing" Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a theory of how people buy. Demand-side sales is a method popularized by Bob Moesta for building a sales program around JTBD. Understanding consumers at a deep and empathetic level adds value to the
