Topic

2021

A collection of 18 issues

Product Decision Document Template

In my company, I have a lot of scoping work and product changes from many different stakeholders. Sometimes, the changes come from our users, the management, and developers. Therefore, keeping track of everything and making everyone accountable for what was discussed is not a simple matter of taking meeting notes.

Top 10 Tips to Talk to Engineers as a Product Manager

1. Gain respect from the devs by communicating what you know and what you don't know 2. Use direct communication language, avoid style where you show off or that you are doing a favor for them (it sad that a lot of PMs give a whiff of know-it-all/bossy) 3.

Do you need to be technically savvy to be a great Startup Product Manager?

"Should I improve my technical knowledge?" is a common question for many product managers or PM wannabes. And there are two major camps: people who believe that a PM should only focus on communication, strategy, cross-functional cooperation skills, and other people who say that technical knowledge is necessary to create

How to Hire the Best Product Manager?

It's an interesting question. The first thing that should come up to you is defining what "the best" means. Usually, in most digital companies, the Product Manager creates products with the development team. There is no explicit agreement on what the best PM should be in the market. Many of

Becoming Startup Product Manager and Creating Great Products

It's not easy to become a startup product manager. Most startups don't have the proper resources to have entire teams to deal with every single problem. So instead, a startup PM ends up wearing multiple hats, exercising many different roles, and applying various skills, creating and launching a product. If

It's Never Too Late

What do you want to do? * Create products? * Create companies? * Make money? * Be famous? * All of it? * None the above? It is such an existential question that it ultimately shapes your life experience. It is tough to answer what you want to do, be it professionally or personally. Some lucky

Are you a Good Startup Product Manager? Free yourself from dead-weights.

Have you ever had that feeling of what to do as a Product Manager? Have you doubted yourself for not being able to know everything about your target market? For startups, you search for every single article, marketing data, and even do many interviews with your core audience, but you

Rolling my eyes: Could you "just" add that "little" feature? It's not going to take that much time, is that right? - a PM struggles.

I'm pretty sure a lot of Product Managers know the feeling when people in your company ask you to add new features into the app or software you are managing. As a PM, you know your users or clients want features as soon as possible. They naively imagine that it