What good product managers do, plus essential and advanced product management skills
Staying productive is as challenging to me as it is for most people. Procrastination, constant feeling of not doing enough, working long hours — I have all the symptoms. However, as I started working with companies and observed their notion of productivity, often keeping everyone busy chasing projects that lead nowhere, I started seeing the flaws in […]
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Let PMs Be PMs Product management is at an interesting point. More and more companies embrace it as a way to supercharge the business, gratify customers and align the org, yet few product teams are able to deliver on these big expectations. I get asked by managers quite frequently how to get PMs to deliver more,
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Last April mobile event discovery startup, Fever, invited me to help with its growth initiative. Fever helps users discover and book events — from parties to fashion, food and fitness. The service gained traction in Madrid, New York, London and other cities, generating over 3 million bookings last year, and reaching a unique monthly audience of over
The free and powerful tool statisticians love Data is now the lifeblood of any successful business. In this short article I’ll try to show how you can do powerful data analysis quickly and with relatively low effort using the open-source R programming language. Spreadsheets are nice, but R will take your data analysis skills to
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So you’re facing the audience and getting ready to present. Everyone’s attention is on you. What do you do? Here’s what I find works for me: 1. Be Interesting The mere fact that your audience is physically there in the room does not mean you have their undivided attention. In fact you can bet it’s
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And Why It Matters So Much for Your Product René Magritte Value for user (as opposed to value of a user) is a critically important product concept. Arguably it’s at the bottom of product/market fit, product design, growth, pricing, marketing, sales, customer satisfaction… Few things help products and services succeed more than injecting them with lots
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