Back in September, I wrote a post providing you with 25 awesome writers to follow on Medium to increase your product knowledge. The challenge I had when writing that post was that, unsurprisingly, there are more than twenty-five great writers relevant to product managers on Medium. I tried to provide Read more…
Back in September, I published a list of the best people for you, as a product manager, to follow on Medium to make the most out of your membership. If you haven’t read it yet, you can give it a read below. The Top 25 People To Follow On Medium Read more…
Getting the most out of Medium as a product professional is down to a combination of what people, and also what publications, you follow. Back in September, I published a list of the top 25 people to follow on Medium if you’re a product manager. You can check it out Read more…
I love anything that allows me and the team I am working with to break away from their normal day to day, ideate, design and refine. I also not-so-secretly love a bit of a process. Anything that is repeatable can be made into a framework to make your life easier, Read more…
Most of us have a hard enough time living in the here and now and doing our day jobs, let alone thinking about the future. It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could Read more…
A few people have asked me recently how to cast a wider net on their product knowledge, or simply how to get started with it. It can be daunting when there are so many sources and people purporting to be ‘experts’ (glances awkwardly at the mirror), so I thought I’d Read more…
If you missed my first two posts about the four flavors of product management, depicted by the PM Quadrants, feel free to check out the first post here and the second post. If that’s TL;DR for you, a synopsis of both posts is below. If you’ve already read them, skip to here. The PM Read more…
In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix: https://chrismiles.co/four-flavours-of-product-manager/ As the name suggests, the PM quadrants are four sections, depicted on a 2×2 graph. It shows the four flavours of product manager based on the relative importance of a Read more…
I have learned so much in the last few years about product management that I wish I’d considered (and known) earlier. This is the first in a series of 4 posts where I will introduce and then expand upon, the ‘PM Quadrants’ that I have created to show what flavors Read more…
Benjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But you can delay death and avoid taxes — the only thing that truly is certain in this life is change. This notion is the central ethos of the product management profession. Product management Read more…