Product Management Can't Make Engineering Go Faster
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READ POSTWhat Customers Wish We Had Asked Them
about 1 month ago • 2 min readIn the summer of 1993, I did my first customer interview. It was a disaster. I didn't speak with another customer for six years. I avoided it like the plague. I hid in software engineering jobs where I didn’t have to. In 2000, I pursued my first startup and I had to start doing customer interviews again. Even then, it was hit or miss and I got absolutely nowhere. Surprise, surprise – the startup failed. I continued fumbling through doing customer discovery over the next five years. This was...
READ POSTWhat Hiring Managers Look For In a Candidate's Resume
about 1 month ago • 1 min readWhen I started as a product manager, I spent years trying to perfect my resume. Skills, keywords, activities, employment history. Nothing worked. Meanwhile, hundreds of other product managers were getting jobs. Building amazing careers Notching up successes Reaping the rewards But my resume got zero. Crickets. Basically ignored. Then, I started to reverse engineer some of the best product management resumes. I wanted to understand what they were doing differently from me. So, armed with a...
READ POSTThe Sale of You
about 1 month ago • 2 min readMy God, we product managers can be so boring. We love to talk about tech, process, and "user value". All of which we're responsible for. None of which get us: Recognition. That job. That promotion. Better compensation. When I started as a product manager, I was seen by business people as too technical. And I had a tough time getting promoted. And this was after I had been a tech entrepreneur. Go figure. Over the years, I've found so many product managers, even product leaders, have this same...
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