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Explainers
React Explained for Product Managers
Everything you need to know about the...
Web3 For Product Managers: A Guide For The Crypto-Curious
If you're open to taking risks and love working...
How to Create a Product Vision Statement
It goes without saying that your product vision should ultimately link back to your product’s overall value proposition. Sure, it doesn’t have to be explicitly obvious that your vision fits within a specific industry domain, but it makes no sense to come up with a vision so random that people feel confused by the mismatch between the vision statement and the company.
DevOps Explained for Product Managers
Transition from tragile to agile...
Payment Terminology for Product Teams
Payment gateways, tokenisation, PCI compliance...
GitHub Explained for Product Managers
Pull requests, merges, branching and all that...
Strategy
Product Positioning for Product Managers
Why an understanding of how your product is...
How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth
If your company’s success depends on growing...
How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers
Of all the different trends that product managers need to be aware of, technical trends are some of the most difficult, since the space is constantly evolving and no one is ever sure whether a new technology is actually going to become widely adopted, or whether it’s just another flash in the pan.
SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers
6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading...
The 5 types of Product Differentiation
How to fight your natural instinct to copy...
How to Create a Product Content Strategy
Content is perceived as something that can be slapped onto a design at the end of the product development process. But in the best companies, content is the design process, not an afterthought. A product that has invested in heavily integrating both design and content into the overall experience oozes quality. You can feel it.
Process
How to Build Products Quickly
If you’ve ever had the joys of working in both an early stage startup and a large corporation, you’ll understand the difference between a company with an operating cadence of ‘run’ and a company with an operating cadence of ‘stay afloat before the quicksand of corporate bureaucratic sludge kills you’.
Accessibility Checklist for Product Teams
Why accessibility can no longer be treated as an...
Why Product Teams Should Hire Tech Leads
Realising the power of the product management...
How Product Managers and Sales teams can work effectively together
Mastering the delicate relationship between the...
How to Write Impactful Release Notes as a Product Manager
High impact releases deserve high impact release...
How to Get the Most out of a Product Beta Phase
Why running a well managed beta program can be a...
Skills
Practical Ways to Earn Respect as a Product Manager
As a Product Manager, it can be difficult to justify your own existence. Luckily, earning respect from your peers can be a powerful way to fight off these feelings and misconceptions.
Negotiation Skills for Product Managers
Negotiation is a fundamental part of a product manager’s life. So it’s probably worth spending a bit of time understanding the different types of negotiation and how you can excel as a negotiator in day to day product management.
How to Read API Documentation
Equip yourself with the ability to speak...
Modern ways to create Product Requirements Documents
It’s helpful to think of your requirements as contextual vs. functional. For the purpose of this post, we’re going to focus on mainly functional requirements, assuming that your product strategy and roadmap are agreed. But that doesn’t mean that your functional requirements documents won’t acknowledge – and link to – your wider strategy, too.
5 Visual Design Principles for Product Managers
This summary is for product managers and tech workers with no formal design skills who want to brush up on their design sense and learn some basic design principles, so that they can have more confident conversations when working with design teams.
Presentation skills for Product Managers
How to excel at the activity we dread the...
Career development
Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product
From Product Manager to Product LeaderThis is...
Resources
Visual Communication templates for Product Managers
Holding people’s attention is difficult. But adding visuals into the mix will help.
Tools for making better product decisions
A good decision can lead to bad results, but so long as the steps you took to make that decision were sound, you can sleep safe at night knowing that you took the best action based on what you knew at the time.
Product Roadmaps – an Essential Guide
Let's talk about product roadmaps What is a...
Metrics that Matter to Product Managers
What are the metrics that matter to your...
6 Unconventional Trello Board Templates for Product Managers
We take a look at 6 less common ways you can use...
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How to Build Products Quickly
If you’ve ever had the joys of working in both an early stage startup and a large corporation, you’ll understand the difference between a company with an operating cadence of ‘run’ and a company with an operating cadence of ‘stay afloat before the quicksand of corporate bureaucratic sludge kills you’.

Accessibility Checklist for Product Teams
Why accessibility can no longer be treated as an afterthoughtAccessibility is the practice of improving the usability of your products for a broad audience. When product teams hear the word “accessibility” they may think first of people with physical conditions: low...

Product Positioning for Product Managers
Why an understanding of how your product is positioned is criticalA key responsibility for Product Managers is to define how their products are positioned in the market. Pricing, user experience, features, performance, branding, customer service and partnerships...

How to de-risk your Product Strategy
Ultimately, you’ll never know if what you’re going to build will succeed until you’ve built it. But there are some sensible steps to take before committing to building your product that will help you to increase its likelihood of success – and de-risk your likelihood of failure.

Practical Ways to Earn Respect as a Product Manager
As a Product Manager, it can be difficult to justify your own existence. Luckily, earning respect from your peers can be a powerful way to fight off these feelings and misconceptions.

How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth
If your company’s success depends on growing effectively, you need to get these things rightWhen a company grows quickly, it undergoes stress. The faster the growth, the more the stress. Structure can make the situation better, but only if it is designed correctly for...

Why Product Teams Should Hire Tech Leads
Realising the power of the product management tech lead partnership The composition of any product team will typically include a blend of: Software engineers UX / product design Product management The team may also include a UX content writer, a user researcher or...

React Explained for Product Managers
Everything you need to know about the component-oriented library“Building applications with React feels like building a Lego car. You use the blocks to build the parts you need, and then connect the parts together one by one to make the car that slides back and...

Negotiation Skills for Product Managers
Negotiation is a fundamental part of a product manager’s life. So it’s probably worth spending a bit of time understanding the different types of negotiation and how you can excel as a negotiator in day to day product management.

How Product Managers and Sales teams can work effectively together
Mastering the delicate relationship between the builders and sellersIn my experience, product managers can often be quite snobbish when it comes to sales. I think it’s the cliche of sales people being Wolf of Wallstreet chest thumpers. But sales people don’t (always)...