Getting Promoted to Director
5 days ago • 9 min readGetting Promoted to Director Read on my website / Read time: 5 minutes Getting promoted to Director is one of the most common questions I get. Small wonder: it's one of the hardest leaps to make. It sounds sexy, right? In a Director role, you have the opportunity to generate outsized impact. You are considered a member of the management and leadership team. You have the opportunity to impact product, process, and people. And it's a key stepping stone to getting into an executive role. Plus,...
READ POSTA Feature-Based Roadmap Is Not Evil
26 days ago • 8 min readA Feature-Based Roadmap Is Not Evil Read on my website / Read time: 5 minutes I stopped worrying about whether I or my teams were in a feature factory years ago. My reasoning was simple: If those features are delivering value to customers and growing the business, keep on keeping on. If they’re not, then move to delivering things that do. I get the concern - that we may be prioritizing quantity of features over quality, outputs over outcomes, short-term delivery over long-term value. That we...
READ POSTWriting a PRD
about 1 month ago • 4 min readWriting a PRD Read on my website / Read time: 3 minutes If you're like me, you're a busy person. That's why I like simple approaches. When I had to learn how to write a Product Requirements Document (PRD), I downloaded all these complicated, detailed templates that had all these "fill in the blank" sections that were meant to be helpful, but only ended up overwhelming me. And the worst part was after spending days writing it, no one would read it! However, as one product manager recently...
READ POST"Can I Get a Decision, Please?"
about 2 months ago • 7 min read"Can I Get a Decision, Please"? Read on my website / Read time: 5 minutes Thank you to our sponsors who keep this newsletter free for the reader: Support This Newsletter With A Sponsorship Product Managers lead buy recommendations and decisions for their companies. Promote your product or brand to a passionate fast-growing community of over 3,600 product managers and leaders. Book Your Sponsorship Today So you finally got that meeting with key executive decision makers that you've desperately...
READ POSTThe Sky is Falling
2 months ago • 7 min readThe Sky is Falling Read on my website / Read time: 5 minutes Thank you to our sponsors who keep this newsletter free for the reader: Learn AI: Expert ChatGPT Prompt Guide Join 650k+ people from companies like Apple, OpenAI, NASA at the Rundown.ai to get free access to our expert ChatGPT prompt guide. Get The Guide For Free The emergency request. This is a special type of request in the form of, "We MUST do this Super Important, Cannot Be Delayed, Drop Everything Else thing and we must do it...
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