If you’ve ever worried your team doesn’t spend enough time talking to customers, you’re probably right! Here are five things you can do about it. — Building deep customer knowledge is essential for your product managers to maximize the success of their products. The single most effective way to achieve this is by having your team talk to customers regularly. …

Why making your point — by making someone else’s — is a surefire shortcut to better decision-making & collaboration — Steelman arguments? In the dynamic and fast-paced environment of startups, product leaders play a crucial role in driving innovation and steering the company toward success. To ensure the team’s alignment and productivity, effective communication, collaboration, and decision-making are essential for senior product managers, directors, and VPs.

Try these non-obvious strategies for experienced ICs who feel more than ready for a people management role. — If you’re an experienced product manager, engineer, or something else and you’re feeling stuck as an individual contributor — I’m going to cover 7 rapid-fire strategies to go from individual contributor to strategic leader and people manager. But what do I know? I’m Bryce York, a product leader based in…

A Red Door Test allows you to gather quantitative validation data about a feature and its usage before you even build it out. I wanted to put this together quickly to share my thoughts on how to use Red Door Tests, what they are, and a unique approach that can…

If you’re not doing business cases, chances are your boss is doing it for you, or you’re just completely rolling the dice on ACTUALLY getting your things approved. Business cases are very much still relevant, and even if you call it something different, it’s a critical part of getting stakeholder…

Prioritization is hard! — And nothing is worse than doing a ton of work but not moving the needle. I want to tell you how factories and the theory of constraints can show you precisely where to focus. I’ll even tell you about a game that’ll make you better at prioritization and all this…

“When I <situation>, I want to <something> so I can <whatever>.” The job story template says: “when I <situation>, I want to <something> so I can <whatever>.” So job stories focus on thinking about the context in which the user wants something to happen. …

How to balance product discovery and product delivery. — When you’re busy, good product discovery is the first thing to fall by the wayside. You might have heard me say before that a product manager stretched too thin becomes a project manager. That’s not to say project management is any less than product management. …

Wondering where your week goes? Feel stuck doing things that aren’t the right use of your time and skills? Time for a time audit! — Do you find yourself wondering where your week goes? Feel like you can never make time for the work you should (or want to) be spending your time on? Do you feel like you’re stuck doing things that aren’t the right use of your time and skills? The best starting…