Tag: product management

  • The Motivation to Do Things (a 4-Step process)

    Step 1 – Allow yourself to take the risk of doing something either you don’t like or don’t have the right tools to do it, or don’t know the outcomes. Step 2 – Keep your eyes and ears WIDE open so you can learn with the process Step 3 – Build a solution for you…

  • Product Roadmap Build-up (2025)

    Amazingly clever idea that brings pragmatism to the product roadmap build-up process.

  • Users are Amazing

    also see Users Are Amazing (2)

  • Exceptions

    — “What if we make an exception for this particular user? He said he wanted to use our product in a different way, his own way.”

  • How Low Can You Go?

    We were using this eSignature SaaS for collecting signatures from customers. One day, a key user came to me to say that users were complaining because they had to fill-in a long identification form before they could sign the contract — which makes sense because all that information would be added to the contract itself.…

  • Success comes from simplifying validated products

    People want products with less features. People want simpler features.

  • Evernote Feature Wishlist

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  • Product Bets and Value-Added Activities within the Dev Team

    by James Shore https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2024/a-useful-productivity-measure “I have introduced the idea of “Product Bets.” Each major initiative needs a Product Bet Proposal. It’s a short, one-page document that explains: In order for a proposal to be accepted, a member of the Leadership team needs to sponsor it, take accountability for its success, and convince the other Leadership…