Product Management for Internal Teams
We recently talked with a leader at a company that had invested in extensive training from a well known product training company on product discovery… Read More
Key Ideas of the Week
Make the Right Things Easy
Humans are like water—we gravitate towards the path of least resistance. Put a bunch of humans together in a team or an organization, and that… Read More
How to Get Useful Feedback on a Work-in-Progress
A few years ago, Peter was working on a big presentation. The way he tells it, he spent several late nights tweaking the deck to… Read More
5 Ways to Get More Participation in Your Meetings
It’s a question we hear all the time: “How can I get my team to speak up more in our meetings?” Lackluster participation in… Read More
Which One of Many Should You Start With?
So, you’ve got a promising big idea that you want to test in small way? Maybe you’re thinking about adopting a new process in your… Read More
Can an Agile-Waterfall Hybrid Even Work?
To many in the Agile community, especially those of us who’ve been around since the early-adopter days, “Hybrid Agile” is another way to say “not… Read More
3 Ways Multitasking Destroys Complex Problem-Solving
Have you looked at your colleagues’ calendars lately? Or your own? Meeting blocks stacked on meeting blocks. Twenty browser tabs showing twenty different trains of… Read More
Do Something That Won’t Compute
In his 1973 poem “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,” farmer-philosopher-poet Wendell Berry suggested, “every day do something / that won’t compute”. In 1973, “doesn’t… Read More
Scarcity & Abundance in Product Development
Product leaders almost always come to us with a scarcity perspective on their work. “We never have enough capacity.” “If only our team were bigger.”… Read More
Choose the Right Tool for Your Desired Interaction
Have you ever found yourself in a meeting where everyone is trying to collaborate in a shared document, but it feels like you’re all just… Read More