Product Hospice

Why product managers never master product retirement

Three forks in cyberspace: choose well.

GOOB: Get out of the building {Product Manager’s Devil’s Dictionary}

CX: Customer Experience {Product Manager’s Devil’s Dictionary}

Users use but Customers pay. Designing for users results in usage. Designing for customers’ results in sales. Excellence in branding, persuasion, justification, dark patterns, shopping carts, and payment processing.

See: Where Your Bread Is Buttered.

Reaping the Product End of Life: A Product Management Research Agenda

I like the idea of product management apprenticeships to cultivate talent. With “merit badges” (or another name) as interim marks of accomplishment, you should be able to walk an apprentice through a curriculum of challenges that will cover the full range and depth of product leadership. They would wind up with a large portfolio of small…