Earnest Product Management

Startup? Kill the Quarterly Product Roadmap

Product Managers everywhere — from small startups to Google — waste countless hours…

5 Essential Tools for Conquering Complex Decisions

Complex decisions drive us all nuts. We argue about them during the day, and we agonize about them at night. All of this struggling — with others and with ourselves — makes us unhappy, anxious, and less successful. Over and over we…

PM Skills: How to Motivate Your Team and Manage Disagreements

Product Managers get to enjoy the fun and challenge of dealing with wide, diverse groups of people — such as engineering, QA, design, data science, marketing and sales. How do you motivate so many teams over whom you have no…

Stop Wasting Time Building the Wrong Features with this Framework

The Who and the How: Using Cohort Analysis and A/B Testing To Increase Conversion

Do you want your company to achieve more [user, volume, revenue] growth and do it cost-effectively? Of course you do. Improving conversion is one of few methods to achieve this outcome…

Multiple Teams, One Purpose: How We Moved Domains Efficiently

(Cross-posted on our main blog.)

On Friday, April 22, we had an uneventful evening in the office. We moved. And that was it. We expected more excitement (bottles of Prosecco awaited), but our…

Pleasures and Pitfalls of Looker

Tl;dr — Looker is great at getting data into our internal users’ hands here at Earnest, but we’ve realized we need to be careful about how we use it.

Pleasures

How to Review OKRs

The end of the quarter has finally arrived, so after weeks of backbreaking, tendonitis-exaggerating effort, you blow the cobwebs off your OKRs, you adjust the height of your standing desk, and you prepare to review them.

The Product Manager’s Guide to Combating Perfectionism

At Earnest, we look for product mangers who exhibit high levels of analytical, technical, and strategic thinking. It is no coincidence that these traits are commonly found in individuals with backgrounds in engineering or other…