It’s happening. It is the time to expand your team. You finally managed to convince your management and secure the budget for increasing your team with a new product manager. Yay! Together with the HR — you post the job. Fast forwarding a week or two into the process —…

On the ‘Product Spheres of Responsibility’ Today we will travel to an ideal world and understand how an ideal company should structure its product organization. I know very few companies which are living up to this ideal structure, but nevertheless — discussing it will assist you on several levels. …

Today we’ll discuss another important aspect of the ongoing communication with your peers. It’s also one of the main pitfalls I see where a lot of people (and not necessarily product managers) fall into. As the title of this post implies — we’ll be focusing on written communication. I think…

If you’d ask me what product management is all about I’d tell you it’s 45% focusing on the value, 45% communication and 10% all the rest. We already spent quite some time talking about the value, how to uncover where it lies and how to deliver on it. We are…

[Originally posted on producteneurship.com. See original post here] In the last post (here) I described the outline of what I consider a good product specification (spec). Over the years I’ve found this template to be very helpful in putting my thoughts on paper and it also forced me to focus…

[Originally posted on producteneurship.com. See the original post here] In the realm of product management — when you want to build something great you’ll probably write a product specification (may be referred to as a PRD in your workplace). …

Originally posted on producteneurship.com (here). Much like the Star-Wars series, product management also has its dark sides. Unlike Star-Wars — product people are not switching to the dark side because they are seeking power and control. …