Video: Cardinal Sins of Product Management
Thou shall not say "Because that's the way we've always done it."
This was among the lessons we learned from Dave Wascha, Chief Product Officer at Moo.com, at ProductTank March. As Dave said, "This is the most scary, terrifying, insidious thing we face as product managers, and the older you get the more baggage you have".
Dave talks about the tyranny of inertia and other 'cardinal sins' of product management, and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against them in order to build a strong product culture.
Watch the video and follow along with the slides below (yes, the first slide is plain black, just click).
About the author
Janna Bastow
Janna Bastow is one of the co-founders of Mind the Product, and kicked off her first event for product people with ProductCamp London in 2010, in an effort to meet and learn from other product managers. As a product manager always looking for better tools, Janna also co-founded ProdPad, product management and roadmapping software for product people. She often starts and stops conversations with the question: “What problem are you trying to solve?”
