A love letter to Product Management from one product geek to another Hope everyone’s having as happy a holiday as possible! Here’s to a more hopeful 2021! Despite the challenges this year has rung in, we’ve seen moments of breathtaking compassion and brilliant technological breakthroughs, and we’ve gone through all Read more…
“Perfection is the enemy of progress” The quote is commonly stated in the world of startups. I’ve found it plastered on office walls and referred to during sprint planning meetings. But what does the quote actually mean? I love the quote because it truly encapsulates a foundational principle of Agile Read more…
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…