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The Product Council Guide
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Backlog Grooming – An Essential Guide
How clean is your product backlog? 1. What is...
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Weekly briefings
Product Briefing – Jun 1, 2023
Notion’s new Projects and WeWork gets 3D video calls. Plus: goodbye YouTube Stories, FigJam’s new iPad app and AI natural selection
Product Briefing – May 25, 2023
Adobe unleashes its superpower and NYT takes on Spotify
Plus: a new tool to Rewind your life, Google Docs plays Notion catch up and Coinbase impresses
Product Briefing – May 18th, 2023
DuoLingo’s monetization machine and Google banishes blue links
Plus: Apple’s new voice clones, a new tool for async comms and the demise of Stack Overflow
Product Briefing – May 11th, 2023
Slack’s AI bet and Peloton gets a reality check. Plus: Zapier’s new no-code feature, a new tool for prudent product pricing and how to use Firefly for product design
Product Briefing – May 4th, 2023
Uber’s comeback and Tinder swipes for meetings. Plus: a new Slack thread management tool, how to sound engaging on Zoom and LinkedIn’s new genAI feature.
Product Briefing – April 27th, 2023
Snap’s AI backlash and Gmail gets beautified. Plus: a new tool for improving your writing, Spotify earnings impress and Klarna releases a new human shopping assistant
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Visual Communication templates for Product Managers
Holding people’s attention is difficult. But adding visuals into the mix will help.
The 5 types of Product Differentiation
How to fight your natural instinct to copy othersThe allure of copying competitors The gravitational pull towards copying competitors is real. In crowded markets, the more competitors, the more certain we are that what our competitors are doing must be the right...
Presentation skills for Product Managers
How to excel at the activity we dread the mostSince product managers have no direct managerial responsibilities over team members and no tangible outputs in the same way a designer or developer might be able to say ‘here’s what I built this week’, PMs must instead...
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.
Product survey 2020
The Department of Product’s 2020 product survey was sent out the survey to our product community of over 10,000 product and tech leaders to find out how the product community is adapting to the new ways of working and to get a sense of what it means to be a product person today.
Technology Skills for Product Managers
The most useful technical concepts to understand when working with engineers.
Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product
From Product Manager to Product LeaderThis is not going to be your typical ‘how-to’ article for moving up into a Product Leadership role. I’m not going to cover the things you normally hear, like advice telling you to be a better PM, to be a better leader, to think...
Why Product Features Matter
Feature factories is the term people use when they’re working at a company who’s idea of product strategy is putting a spreadsheet together with a shopping list of items that need to be delivered with a few dates slapped next to them. But as real as these frustrations are, it’s also worth asking: what if features actually do matter?
Component Oriented Thinking for Product Managers
Components mean many things to different members of a modern product team. For a product manager, using components means building reusable pieces of value which cut down future development time and leads to shipping more value faster.
5 Ways to use Post it Notes as a Product Manager
They’re a tech company cliche. And here’s 5 ways you and your product team can use post it notes effectively.