At a startup, you’re always in a battle against time. You’re racing to find product-market fit. You’re sprinting to grow revenue ahead of a new fundraising round. You’re hustling to launch new features and deliver value to your customers faster than any of your competitors. Unsurprisingly, the nature of startups Read more…
For anyone who’s ever been a Product Manager, I don’t need to tell you that it’s a busy, noisy, challenging, mile-a-minute, exciting, and often, pretty stressful job. You’re trying to balance long-term strategic vision with short-term deadlines. You’re trying to ship value to users and drive outcomes for your company Read more…
More than 1 year ago, I wrote: “How to Be a Great Remote Product Manager.” Little did I know that we’d be living in a remote-only world for more than a year! How to Be a Great *Remote* Product ManagerIt’s easier than ever today to go remote in tech. But Read more…
Starting out as a Product Manager, there will be a lot to soak in. It might be daunting. It might be nerve-wracking. But you probably didn’t break into PM thinking that it’s easy (at least I hope you didn’t). It would have been far better to have found at least Read more…
Notion is an all-in-one workspace. It allows you to take notes, manage projects and other tasks. There are many products that offer these functionalities individually. But none of them offers everything in one place. Before using Notion, My go-to apps were Evernote & Google Docs for taking notes, Google Keep for to-do Read more…
For the past 4 years, I’ve written about my favorite Product podcasts and it’s already that magical time of year again! For a quick throwback, here are my past posts: Top 10 Podcasts for Product Managers in 2020Subscribe to these podcasts and you’ll stay entertained all year long (and learn Read more…
Even though 2020 is now (thankfully!) behind us, there is a lot that we as Product Managers can learn from a year that changed so much, challenged so many of our beliefs, changed our ways of working, and reshaped our organizations. Whether it is Learning to Act Like a Wartime PM, Roadmapping Read more…
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…
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…