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…

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The 4 Phases of Delivering Products & Features Your Customers Will Love — Surprisingly, there isn’t a universal or formal definition of the product development lifecycle. If you’re a product manager looking for a framework to structure your product development lifecycle, focus on these four key phases: Discovery Planning Execution Evaluation With over a decade of product management experience in early and growth-stage…

A definition and playbook for thoughtfully designed features that are delightfully and elegantly simple to expand over time — Let’s start with why we need Composable Features in the first place. If you’ve been in product for a while, especially as a startup product leader, you’ll be familiar with seeing a roadmap filled with incremental but necessary projects. Ever felt like this quarter was just like the last but…

Three simple productivity hacks I’ve been using for years and how to adopt them for yourself tomorrow — Like what you see? Product snacks delivered fresh to your inbox. Get bite-sized visual articles like this one delivered straight to your inbox. Send Me Product Content As a product manager, you have a broad range of responsibilities and have many places where you can become the bottleneck for a…

Velocity should be qualitative, not quantitative, in early and growth-stage startups — Like what you see? Product snacks delivered fresh to your inbox. Get bite-sized visual articles like this one delivered straight to your inbox. Send Me Product Content I have the somewhat controversial opinion that most efforts to measure velocity (things like story points and burn-down charts) are at best not…

Know your audience and write a well-structured document they can follow without additional context — Like what you see? Product snacks delivered fresh to your inbox. Get bite-sized visual articles like this one delivered straight to your inbox. Send Me Product Content It’s not difficult to identify a good process document, but creating one is often much harder. When you’re in the process of writing…

Make your products shine by cutting the excess and taking the time to polish the user experience — Like what you see? Product snacks delivered fresh to your inbox. Get bite-sized visual articles like this one delivered straight to your inbox. Send Me Product Content When ring shopping for my now fiancé, I learned a bunch about diamonds. In particular, that it’s common to discard more than 50%…

The most important part of making a “new” way of doing things is deprecating the “old” way — Like what you see? Product snacks delivered fresh to your inbox. Get bite-sized visual articles like this one delivered straight to your inbox. Send Me Product Content Supporting two ways of doing things is costly and frustrating. And for those working on the “old way,” it can be demoralizing. In…