The roles product people play
This post explores the product people roles of product management, product ownership and business analysis and identifies which titles fill those roles.
Build Measure Learn
The Build-Measure-Learn loop is a concept coined by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup to capture the feedback loop startups use to convert ideas into products.
What do you do with mandated outcomes like staff reductions?
Sometimes the outcome you're asked to deliver is a reduction in staff. This post explores how to deal with mandated outcomes such as reducing staff.
The benefits and pitfalls of outcomes over outputs
I often suggest that you focus on outcomes over output, but never explained why. Here's a look at the benefits and pitfalls of a focus on outcomes.
How to make sure you’re solving the real problem
A collection of techniques you can use to make sure you're solving the real problem: pop the why stack, socratic questioning, and setting outcomes.
13 Examples of Internal Products
13 episodes from the This is Product Management podcast and the 100 PM podcast where the interviewee works in what I’d consider an internal product context.
What product people should know about design thinking
Design thinking is an approach to solving problems that is human centered, cross functional, iterative, creative, and practical; and you may already do it.
Usability Testing Lessons Learned
How I used usability testing at a conference to better understand how people use Agile Alliance's website and some lessons I learned as a result.
What is the difference between customers, users, and stakeholders?
When you develop products, you have to interact with customers, users, and stakeholders. To be effective, you need to understand the different perspectives.
Internal Product Management
Use Internal product management for products that you don't sell directly, but use to support business activities and sell your true product and service.
Product Manager vs Product Owner
A collection of perspectives on the product manager vs product owner debate. Which is right? It depends.
Is there a Difference Between MVP and MMF?
There are differences between a minimum viable product (MVP) and minimum marketable feature (MMF), but in order to understand the difference, you need to understand the concepts, not just know their names. In this excerpt from Beyond Requirements, I describe both concepts, how they differ, and where they can be useful for product people.
3 Examples of actual agile organizations
Three organizations that walk the agile organization walk, but see no need to talk the talk, even though they share their practical experiences freely.
What Jobs to Be Done Teaches us about Interviews
4 considerations when conducting interviews about an internal product. Inspired by Alan Klement's book about Jobs to be Done, When Coffee and Kale Compete.
Books for Product People
A slightly unconventional list of books that product owners and business analysts will find useful.
Product People
Product managers, business analysts, user experience designers, and product owners are all product people. How are these roles similar and different?
10 Ways to Determine the Purpose of a Project
The Five Whys Technique (also known as “Popping the Why Stack”) has long been suggested as a way to get to the ultimate reason for a project. But when you ask why repeatedly, you run the risk of looking quite pedantic and annoying stakeholders. With that in mind, I thought I’d provide a list of …