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Thanks for stopping by. A quick piece about me, product management, and my site.
Thanks for stopping by. A quick piece about me, product management, and my site.
Whether on Product School, Products That Count, or ProductCraft -- you'll find my articles, videos, and podcast content across the web. Here's some of my favorites
For Product Managers who want to ship their first GenAI or LLM-powered feature but are unsure where to start.
Breaking into product management isn't easy, but it's more than possible with the right attitude and some hard work.
How I made a Slack App MVP to summarize threads and provide channel overviews using open-source tools and OpenAI.
If you've ever worried your team doesn't spend enough time talking to customers, you're probably right! Here are five things you can do about it.
Why making your point - by making someone else's - is a surefire shortcut to better decision-making & collaboration
Knowing both your customers and your buyers is critical to finding problems worth solving and developing solutions worth building.
Feeling stuck as an individual contributor? Try these non-obvious strategies for experienced product managers who feel more than ready for a people management role.
If you're tired of getting red lights from stakeholders, this hack might be just what you need to win them over!
Use this simple tool to gather quantitative data about your feature before you even go to all the trouble of building it.
Prioritization is hard! And there is nothing worse than doing a ton of work but not moving the needle.
When you're busy, good product discovery is the first thing to fall by the wayside. Here's how to balance your time without dropping the ball.
Take control of your time and actively manage your productivity by using your calendar just a little differently.
Wondering where your week goes? Feel stuck doing things that aren't the right use of your time and skills? Time for a time audit!
The 4 easiest ways to clear your calendar and to-do list to make room for more valuable work!
A definition and playbook for thoughtfully designed features that are delightfully and elegantly simple to expand over time
The 4 Phases of Delivering Products & Features Your Customers Will Love
"When I <situation>, I want to <something> so I can <whatever>."
Three simple productivity hacks I’ve been using for years and how to adopt them for yourself tomorrow
Velocity should be qualitative, not quantitative, in early and growth-stage startups
Know your audience and write a well-structured document they can follow without additional context
Make your products shine by cutting the excess and taking the time to polish the user experience
The most important part of making a “new” way of doing things is deprecating the “old” way
If there’s part of the product that never gets used or doesn’t deliver value, it’s time to consider removing it
A simple but powerful tool to keep your product experience consistent and guide your decision-making
There are things we don’t know and things we can’t know, de-risk the former and test the latter.
In product, business significance is more important than statistical significance so make sure you’re not over-emphasizing stat sig.
Using and acting on all data isn’t always ideal, don’t fall into the trap of trying to be everything to everyone.
People ask me to recommend tools all the time, so I made this page as a reference point for my most recommended software and tools for startups and product managers.
After 10 years working in product management, these are my top 10 non-obvious tips for succeeding in a product leadership role.
Spoiler: I also just finished reading Shape Up. Here’s how to apply it with Google Slides or PowerPoint
I propose we focus less on building MVPs and more on building MVEs – Minimum Viable Experiment.
Even with all the data in the world, you need to be smart with how you use it if you want to get an accurate picture.
The cloud is a *terrible* backup strategy! Let's cover why and what you should be doing instead.
Will attributes his success with Car Next Door to three pillars - Building The Team, Getting Stuff Done, and World-Class Systems.
Lessons on how to crush it at Growth with the man who coined the term 'growth hacking' in 2010 and popularized the term product/market fit.
This email sequence is one of the fastest and easiest campaigns to create - in this post you'll be walked through the exact formula step-by-step.
A snapshot of the real-life challenges of launching an eCommerce business.
A Carefully Structured Formula for Speed, Cohesion, and Minimised Key-Person Risk
I came across this article today and couldn't help but share it with you.
My top predictions and tactics for rapidly accelerating the growth of your eCommerce business in 2015.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the software of the web isn’t ready for the influx of parallax backgrounds that are flooding the web. What I’m referring to here is the scrolling backgrounds all over the web that move at different speeds to the ‘foreground’…
1. It saves you time I hated having to wait two weeks for a book to arrive from Amazon. By the time it got to my door, I’d lost the excitement. With my Kindle I can buy a book and have it ready to read in 2 minutes! 2. It…
According to Fast Company magazine and a study by MIT, paying people to be creative or productive is often counter productive. The MIT study offered three levels of monetary incentive correlating to the level of success. When the system was tested against menial, mechanical tasks the incentives worked exceptionally well.
Have you ever seen a business pitch that was brilliant? Have you ever seen a business pitch that was incredibly interesting, creative and clever yet lacked something and left you wondering “… but why?” All to often early stage entrepreneurs (I’ve definitely been guilty of this) make a crucial mistake.
As a seed stage business, it is often tempting to raise money to give you business a kick start. More money means more options, right? What experts such as Mark Suster believe, as well as myself, is that there is a fine line between enough capital and too much capital.
Throughout the resources available to entrepreneurs, there is an underlying belief. Starting a business with co-founders improves your chances of success. This claim is almost invariably backed up by a statistic around the large percentage of fortune 100 companies being started by 4 or more persons. I’m not here to…
Step #1 – Define yourself, in a 30 second soundbite, this needs to be so simple you can say it at gunpoint if you're woken at 3 AM.