When considering your Product Strategy, remember that in reality, the total opportunity only really reveals itself as you progress. You're always guessing to some extent, but pretending there's clarity when there isn't never helps.

Modified Proverbs for Product Management... - It's better to be sorry than SAFe. - Think twice, build once. - A bug fix in time saves nine. - An outcome a day keeps the feature roadmap at bay. What else have you got?

Product management isn’t really about Products, it’s about understanding people. That goes for both what you create, and who you create it with.

Great Product People are: Inspirational leaders OR Quiet thinkers Technologists OR Decoders Dynamic OR Consistent Explorers OR Settlers Purist OR Pragmatic Extroverted OR Introverted Natural UX’ers OR struggling sketchers Doers OR Delegators Studiers or Scanners It depends.

I created this image a little while ago to visualise different ways I've seen Product Teams work. Someone asked me to explain them a little further...so I shall...(1/8)

I've been thinking about how Product Teams orientate themselves as they scale...and what things they might then look after. So, a few thoughts on how Metrics, Outcomes & Flywheels might help here... Warning: TIP (thought-in-progress) (1/18)

There's a delicate balance between discovery and delivery. We know we should test our ideas, but what's good enough? When should we stop? In this article I use the Confidence Meter to offer an answer. buff.ly/3KwO4Tu

Context is only given if understood. Sometimes it will take multiple tries to convey information in the right way for the recipient to ‘get it’. If they are a important ‘decision maker’, it’s on you to find the right way.

Great visual for seeing how: • Strategy • Goals • Roadmap • Sprints All tie into each other.

The first article I wrote for Hyperact still rings true, for anyone joining a new product team. Know your: Team 👋 Product 📲 Users 🕵️‍♀️ Tech stack 👩‍💻 Stakeholders 👩‍💼 Dependencies 🤝 Metrics 📈 An 8 minute read packed with practical tips hyperact.co.uk/blog/starting-…

Product management is actually about people, not products.

Sam Absolutely true. I truly believe: a good team is the foundation of any product success.

Sam Yeah so true. Product management is such a complex mix of technology, economics, psychology, and art.

I freaking love this PM visualization. The closer you look, the more awesome it gets.

I wrote that my job at meta was to find and tackle ill-defined problems. People asked about my approach. I guess it's being creative. But my version of creativity is when your brain connects two unrelated ideas in an elegant way. And it can be systematized. Here's how I think

46 Hyperact articles covering product management, design, and engineering. Free. No ads. No sign up. Boiling down our learnings on decision stacks, principles, story maps, service blueprints, working in and growing product teams, and lots more. 🔗 hyperact.notion.site/Hyperact-produ…

✨ New resource: a PM Performance Evaluation template (along with a calibration meeting story) Throughout my 15+ years as a PM, I’ve consistently felt that ladder-based PM performance evaluations seem broken, but I couldn’t quite find the words to describe why. Early on in my

Morning! " #FoodFor Agile Thought #449: Sprint Planning: Stop Wasting Time on Spreadsheet Capacity Micromanagement; Make better decisions using consent, not consensus; When will it be ready?" buff.ly/3VRcUm6 w/ Maarten Dalmijn Jurriaan Kamer Sam

Grab this Plan on a Page checklist by John Cutler

I haven’t posted for a long time, and probably won’t again for another long time, but this post is to point you to that post, because if you are a product person, I’d doubt there’s a more valuable one to look at. 👇