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The Importance of Hiring Product Developers

BY Gabriel García Fernández on February 18, 2016

Take a look at the job offers for technical people that are out there right now. Senior Javascript Expert, Junior Django Backend Developer, Full-Stack Python/JS Developer… It’s the same pattern over and over. An optional “seniority” adjective, a fancy technology name plus the “Developer” or “Expert” word appended at the end. I think we’re doing Read more »

Transformers: Understanding Product Leadership

BY Timm Richter on February 9, 2016

We are confused and speechless (in the literal sense) when it comes to leadership. Or shall I say management? After all, we generally call ourselves “product managers”, not “product leaders”. Maybe “product directors”? Or “product owners” who need to lead laterally, as they don’t really have the power to call the shots (contrary to those Read more »

4 Design Skills Every Product Manager Should Have

BY Harish Venkatesan on August 10, 2015

The importance of design is a common refrain these days in the tech industry — to the point of almost being a cliche – but how can your skills create added value through great design? Whether in the consumer (Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox) or enterprise (Slack) space, examples abound of companies creating immense value through great Read more »

The Importance Of Narrative

BY Simon Cast on August 16, 2013

Mid last year, Janna, my co-founder at ProdPad, and I were having trouble understanding where ProdPad was taking us, so we sat down and came up with a narrative and storyboards for our product. Having this narrative for ProdPad has helped immensely and I only wish we had written it down earlier. Product managers need Read more »

Moving From Product Management Into Product Strategy

BY Becky Yelland on May 15, 2013

I’ve worked as a product manager since 2005. My first role was part of the core product team at BSkyB in strategic product development.  We were product owners of the concept through to delivery to market of all the new set-top boxes and in-home consumer devices such as routers and wireless bridges, as well as Read more »

Everything a product manager needs to know about analytics

BY Simon Cast on February 20, 2013

Everyone knows analytics are important for product managers. But, like lots of things everyone knows, not everyone knows why they are important and in the case of analytics even necessarily what they are. This post is going to look at: What exactly are analytics? Concepts of analytics Implementing analytics Measuring analytics Reporting analytics Analytics and Read more »

Sketchnote a more awesome you

BY Lucy Spence on March 30, 2011

Here’s the thing – we all want to be better at what we do. If you didn’t you wouldn’t be reading this. So we tend to read a lot. We listen to what other people have to say about stuff. We think about things. Sometimes we actually get around to trying some of the things Read more »