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Published in Product Coalition

·Nov 3, 2020

How To Identify A Problem Worth Solving

A great product is a function of identifying a worthwhile problem and meaningfully solving that problem. Michael Seibel, CEO and Partner at Y Combinator, shared the lessons he’s learned from seeing thousands of startups over the last decade on the Investor Field Guide podcast a few months ago. In the…

Product Management

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How To Identify A Problem Worth Solving
How To Identify A Problem Worth Solving
Product Management

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Published in UX Collective

·Jun 14, 2020

How to actually ‘work backwards’

Build your next product by working backwards. — Working Backwards is an approach to product development made popular by Amazon. This process can be applied for any new product, service, or feature. Putting this idea into practice requires starting with the customer, think big, and focus on the riskiest assumption upfront. Start with the customer Working backward always starts with the customer…

Product Management

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How to actually ‘work backwards’
How to actually ‘work backwards’
Product Management

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Jun 10, 2020

Product Strategy Lessons From Jeff Bezos

Focus on the things that don’t change — Human needs and wants are relatively stable over time. What changes much more frequently are the means by which people seek to satisfy those needs. While much of product innovation is focused on things that are changing and trending in the world, we can actually build durable product strategies by…

Product Strategy

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Product Strategy

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Published in Product Coalition

·Jun 8, 2020

The Three Goals of a Product Feature

One of the product articles I reference often is the Guide to Product Planning: Three Feature Buckets written by Adam Nash. I love this article for the simple framework to think about building your product roadmap by focusing on elements of moving key metrics, building customer requests, and inspiring delight. …

Product Management

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The Three Goals of a Product Feature
The Three Goals of a Product Feature
Product Management

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Jun 8, 2020

How to Develop Product Insights

Marty Cagan talks about Insights as a critical input into crafting a product strategy. Insights can come in a variety of forms, however, it takes real work to identify them and translate these into action. Moreover, insights are often unique to each product, company, or industry. …

Product Management

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How to Develop Product Insights
How to Develop Product Insights
Product Management

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May 27, 2020

Finding opportunity with things that suck

The easiest way to make something better is to find something that “sucks” and work on it until it doesn’t. Hidden among the “suck” is an opportunity to make an impact by building trust within your teams and solving real problems. Is there some task that the team doesn’t like doing but needs to get done? → Help them automate it or volunteer to do it for them Is there a customer angry with support about a bug? → Pick up the phone and talk it through with them

Product Management

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Finding opportunity with things that suck
Finding opportunity with things that suck
Product Management

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Published in Product Coalition

·May 25, 2020

15 Ideas That Will Shape Your View Of Building Products

Ideas and mental models for product managers — 1. Start with Why “People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.” Simon Sinek’s leadership lessons provide a great model for leaders and product managers to communicate and inspire. …

Mental Models

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15 Ideas That Will Shape Your View Of Building Products
15 Ideas That Will Shape Your View Of Building Products
Mental Models

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Published in Product Coalition

·Aug 9, 2018

Place Your Product Bets

When was the last time you had an idea you were 100% certain would be a success? Was it actually successful? If you build products for a living you likely know that scenario above rarely happens. The reality of product management is that most of the ideas we generate fail…

Product Management

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Place Your Product Bets
Place Your Product Bets
Product Management

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Published in Prototypr

·Apr 10, 2018

How To Think About Delighting Users

User delight is defined by the Nielsen Group as “any positive emotional affect that a user may have when interacting with a device or interface.” Delight is the last, sometimes unattainable, frontier of product development. This is reflected in Aarron Walter’s ‘Hierarchy of User Needs’. As product managers, we likely…

User Experience Design

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How To Think About Delighting Users
How To Think About Delighting Users
User Experience Design

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Feb 28, 2018

Building Confidence As a PM

When I transitioned into product management I was nervous and unsure. Although I had experience working with Agile software teams I lacked any formal technical background and had never managed a backlog or run a planning meeting. My lack of confidence in my own decision making was so obvious that…

Product Management

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Building Confidence As a PM
Building Confidence As a PM
Product Management

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