How my content will be shared between Medium & Substack moving forward — 🤏 TL;DR Pleased to announce my new Substack newsletter, ‘Like A Product Manager’! 🎉 Newsletter content will include weekly product insights, deep dives into practical product frameworks, interviews with other PMs and more! Medium and Substack content will differ based on their depth, variety & price — in that it will be…

Craft curious & engaging questions that increases your team’s understanding about the user problem that needs to be solved — Curiosity killed the cat, as they say. Not so for product managers, where curiosity is a key trait which drives the discovery, investigation and subsequent solution to a real problem that is being faced by users of a particular product. …

Learn how to exercise your goal setting muscle like a product manager — Influencing your team positively and determining the initiatives that they will work on is one half of the product management battle. …

Learn how to plan for future initiatives on a quarterly basis through a roadmap — For optimal efficiency and performance, software development teams require clear direction and guidance in terms of where the team is headed and why they are headed in that certain direction. …

Understanding what new feature the customer wants is easy enough. Understanding why they want that new feature in your product is another dimension altogether. It might be tempting to just take the customer’s word for all of the new initiatives, functions and features that they would love to see in…

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are” — Steve Jobs — There is a misconception among new product managers — heck, even some experienced ones — that the job of a product manager requires us to agree to everything that is proposed to us, either from the customer or from internal stakeholders, without passing it through a filter called common sense…

Learn how to be certain and prepared to choose the best option moving forward for your team and your product — As a product manager, it is likely that you’ll face a barrage of decisions that need to be contemplated and committed to on a day to day basis. A part of what makes a product manager’s role so difficult and, yet, so dynamic is the breadth and variety of decisions…

Learn how to ask questions of and understand the pain points your users have with the product — Whether you’re launching your first product with few users or working on an existing legacy product with hundreds, thousands or even millions of users, there will come a point where users will start to either experience pain points with your product or have ideas about how it can be further…

Use this template as a simple and effective way to record, refer and organise relevant information required for your Epics and User Stories — Link to updated template: click here In my previous article, we covered the epic and user story template, and Kanban board structure and style, that I use in my day to day role as a product manager, which has not only helped me shape my initiatives and to break down…