Product management resources that provide inspiration, insight and motivation
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Timeline roadmaps suck – Janna Bastow’s Twitter TED Talk
The tweet thread began with an expert explanation on why timeline roadmaps set product managers up to fail. Janna revealed why everyone should be using lean product roadmaps instead.
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Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
Shape Up is for product development teams who struggle to ship. If you’ve thought to yourself “Why can’t we ship like we used to?” or “I never have enough time to think about strategy,” then this book can help.
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How to Build and Structure a Great Product Team
Digital products with the highest value are always the result of great teamwork. Yet, in my experience, assembling a product development team is a tall order. So how do the best companies build their product teams?
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The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking
If we focus on maximizing real customer outcomes, we start to find that more stuff isn’t always so good. The best products aren’t those with the most features. The most successful product companies aren’t those with the most products.
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David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit
David Rusenko details the story of how Weebly developed one of the most popular website creation and hosting sites on the web today.
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Des Traynor on Product Roadmaps
As our co-founder Des explains in this talk, looking at your product roadmap is often a much clearer indication of what your company is about. Deciding what goes on your roadmap requires tough decisions and agonizing trade-offs.Description goes here
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Martin Eriksson - Building Awesome Product Teams
As one third of the team behind the best-selling 'Product Leadership' book and a founder of the entire Mind the Product movement, Martin has a unique perspective on this topic. By sharing his own experiences and the insights he's learned from the PM community, he'll show us how to build and lead an awesome product team.
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Gherkins: A better way of writing user stories
User stories are an Agile technique of defining product functionality and requirements. They focus on telling a story for an action a user will take and what the expectation is when successful. The concept of user stories is widely used, but telling good stories can be quite difficult.
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Death by a Thousand Papercuts, and How to Avoid It
Bugs are an inevitable aspect of developing and maintaining any codebase. There is one pesky category of issue that requires special attention. We call this category “papercuts”: small problems that don’t affect the core use of the app, but still cause a mild annoyance to the user.
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OKR Examples
If you aren't sure where to start with writing your OKRs, take a look at our OKR examples including company-wide examples, OKR examples for executives, and OKRs for specific departments in your organization.
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The Most Effective Way to Give Your Employees Feedback
No one can perform better without feedback. But there's one phrase you can use that will instantly improve the impact of the feedback you give--whether the actual feedback is positive or negative.
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14 habits of highly effective Product Managers
Great product managers described by Lenny Rachitsky.