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How to Prioritize: Top 6 Techniques

Too much to do As a product manager, one of the fundamental issues you will have in your life is that you will have a lot of things to do, and you won’t be able to do them all. Whether it’s the list of...

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The Best Way To Understand Agile

I was chatting with Jason Tanner of Enthiosys the other day, and he asked me how I defined “Agile Product Management.” What follows is more or less my answer, formatted a bit for the purposes of the...

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Agile vs. The “Big Dog” Feature

(First published back in 2010, this article is still apropos and I thought it was time to revive it.) Managing big features using agile This post originated as a comment on the Cranky Product Manager’s...

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A Radically Different Manifesto For Agile and Lean

I do not like the agile manifesto. It does not resonate with me as a product manager – someone responsible for guiding successful products to market. It’s very focused on the needs and desires of...

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The Challenge of Roadmaps

Rich Mironov reposted his great article, Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap, about the physics of roadmaps yesterday at the same time I posted my closely-related tidbit about delivering late...

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Accelerating Change In Your Face

Exponential Change: A Handy Mnemonic We all know change is accelerating, but, as Peter Diamandis points out, things can be deceptively slow before the exponentials kick in. In this video, in less than...

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5 Tips For When Your Release Is Running Late

The other day I got a question on a PM chat system: “Wanted to tap into the experts here, although might sound like a stupid question. What are some of the PM strategies to apply when you know your...

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How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile

People have asked me “How can I get my execs to support an agile transformation? They don’t like that they can’t predict anything.” Reframe the Agile conversation around value Orient the conversation...

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To 10x Your Profits Start With Retrospectives

20% is boring As many of you know, there’s a technique called a “retrospective” in scrum, or you might call it a debrief. After each sprint the team spends a short amount of time reviewing what went...

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The Secret Truth About Your Methodology and Processes

What are your goals? A product organization has three overarching goals: Deliver great value to our customers. Do it quickly, efficiently, and with high quality. Do it better over time. A product...

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