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A/B Test

Some of you are reading this as “A/B Test”, the other seven of you as “Split Test”. This very scientific method will help the Devil’s Dictionary of Product Management choose which name to use for this entry in future print editions.

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Landing page {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

A person’s first point of contact with your web site guaranteed to bounce them away.

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Product Management {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

Product management is…

  • The responsibility for turning the wrong idea into something profitable without authority, resources, or time.
  • The art of using social skills to persuade people more…
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Product roadmap {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

A work of fantasy inducing in stakeholders a shared delusion of a hopeful future…

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Split-test

Some of you are reading this as “Split Test”, the other seven of you as “A/B Test”. This scientific method will help the Devil’s Dictionary of Product Management team to choose which name to use for this entry in future print editions.

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Diffusion of Innovation

Love spreads. So do good ideas. And new practices. All like an infectious disease, spreading across social networks…

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Theory of Constraints

Flow is everything. Unclog one bottleneck, reveal another. Repeat.

See: Velocity. from Goldratt’s The Goal. more.

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Digital Sharecropping

Put up a site/app/service/device that sucks people in. Sell their volunteered attention, activity, identity, and creative work to advertisers and personal data traffickers. Stiff the poor sharecroppers.

See: “If you didn’t pay, you are the product.”

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Velocity

The rate at which product development frustrates customers.

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Synergy Trap

The Mergers & Acquisitions version of glowing romantic infatuation crushed by harsh marital reality. #NotBetterTogether

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Three Envelopes {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

The new product manager opens a drawer and finds three…

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People Lie

People lie. Constantly. That’s why product leaders weigh behavior over speech. And why we don’t look in the mirror.

People lie. Constantly. In ways large and small. For kind reasons, and dark. With…

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Incubator {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

A ramen marketing ploy.

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Gardening and Pruning {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

From wiki cultivation. Removing the parts of your product you wouldn’t add today. Paying off design and technical debt. Making room for new…

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Product Retirement, Euphemisms for {Product Manager’s Devil’s Dictionary}

Most folks are skittish about death. Don’t like talking about it. A bit of that happens with product end-of-life. Metaphors and…

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Power: Five duties of a Product Manager

Are you using your power well? For good?

How Product Managers use their power well

Product leaders have an intensely social job. We get things done through others. It takes power to…

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Three forks in cyberspace: choose well.

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I’m worried about the coming pixel shortage

Peak pixel in only 18 months. We’re running out of this non-renewable resource.

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RIP Raden, of Airlines Banning Powered Bags

Great exit interview with Raden’s founder by Elizabeth Segran for FastCo.

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Would you let your phone make your phone calls?

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#RIP Klout, of Lithium’s GDPR concerns

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Designers have Design Systems. What could product people have?

Product managers have the product life cycle. And workflows like the one that takes a change from suggestion to release note.

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Why product managers never master product retirement

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Stakeholder management {Product Manager’s Devil’s Dictionary}

Staving off attackers with stakes, per Dan Hon.

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A Code of Ethics for Product Managers?

We’re all about getting things done. The right things done. But “right” means more than optimal, more than product-market fit or market share or profitability. Sometimes it’s the difference between right and wrong. Let’s talk about it.

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