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Team Recommendations for How to Become a Great Product Manager

A new product manager who recently graduated from college joined our team a few months ago. As I’ve been meeting with her, I’ve been thinking about my own journey in product and wondering how and when did I learn what I know? What learning moments stuck with me most? Can we short cut her journey … Continue reading Team Recommendations for How to Become a Great Product Manager

Evaluating Team Peformance in the Modern Company

  This post was originally published on 3/6/18 at LeanStartup.co. Leaders are almost always looking for new ways to incorporate more innovation into their organizations. Who doesn’t want to motivate and inspire their employees to bring forth new ideas to propel the business forward? As we all know, employees (well, humans) generally behave in alignment with … Continue reading Evaluating Team Peformance in the Modern Company

Avoiding the Waste of Test Churn: Three Tips to Prep Before You Test

This post was originally published on 10/27/17 at LeanStartup.co. Early in my career, I’ll confess that I was a feature-hungry product manager. I wanted as much functionality as my team could build. Wasn’t more better? Schedule and budget were the only limit for how much my team could build, and it was my job to prioritize … Continue reading Avoiding the Waste of Test Churn: Three Tips to Prep Before You Test

Testing New Business Models within a Mature Organization

Last year, my team explored different business models that might create new sources of revenue for our organization. I knew the project was going to be risky given we were a new business within an existing organization. Here’s what worked best with this project: Intentional communication Public testing dashboards Team agreements Test plans Regression tests … Continue reading Testing New Business Models within a Mature Organization