An interesting philosophical discussion was triggered on MindTheProduct’s Product Managers Skype chat when I questioned why someone had incomplete user stories in their development backlog. The majority of the answers can be boiled down to “because that is how it is done”. However, I feel there is another way, which offers several advantages over doing the grooming [...]
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Losing Weight with the Lean Startup
Following a weekend of Lean talks around London with Eric Ries, Nick Cordrey has written this guest post as an introduction to Lean for those who might still be unsure about what it involves and how to get started Everything is very lean at the moment. Not a bit of fat in sight. Which is [...]

Being a Lean Product Manager
From the early days of PeerIndex we’ve been running as a (very) lean startup. This has taught me some lessons about the practice of Product Management in lean startup environments. This is less about the use of customer development tools and finding product market fit but rather about some tips and tricks that made my [...]
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Mind the Product 2013
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What, exactly, is a Product Manager?
October 5, 2011
- Product Focused vs. Customer Focused Product Management: What’s the difference? September 13, 2011
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Data Driven: Your Bounce Rate and Time On Site are wrong
August 10, 2011
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Beware The Dogma Of Agile And Lean
May 2, 2012
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Tame Your Roadmap
September 27, 2011
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Video: Product Management in Games at King
June 13, 2013
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Ask A Product Manager: Effective Product Roadmaps
June 11, 2013
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Video: Product Management in Games at Mediatonic
June 6, 2013
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Video: Product Management in Games at Mind Candy
May 31, 2013
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A Framework For Evaluating Market Opportunity
May 22, 2013
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