The Benefits of Collaborative Discovery and Pre-Wiring Your Roadmap
As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. But how do you get there? Given how many peop... →
Why You Need to Keep MOATs Front and Center in Your Product Roadmap Strategies
When you think of the term ‘moat’, what comes to mind? By definition, a moat is "a long, wide hole that is dug all the way around a place such as a castle and usually filled with water, to make it more difficult to attack". I know you’re probably wondering: what does this have to do with your pro... →
Discipline In Product: Know How To Identify Problems and Ship Solutions
Today’s most valuable companies, like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, are product-led and customer-driven. They owe their success to a unified product vision that is informed by feedback from customers, prospects, and colleagues. These companies ship products that satisfy REAL customer need... →
Sustainability Objectives VS Financial Viability: A Paradox for CleanTech Startups
Climate change is no conspiracy theory; it’s a very serious threat and a reality we unfortunately face. The fire is smouldering at our door, scorching cities and countries in its path. Lytton, British Columbia, a small village of 249 inhabitants, suffered as a result of a major heatwave that reac... →
Part Two: Your Guide to Executing AI and Machine Learning Projects
There are a lot of complexities when it comes to building, shipping and executing AI and machine learning (ML) projects. In our previous article in this two-part series, we looked at the importance of collaboration and everyone understanding their roles within the product management team — and ... →
Part One: Tomorrow’s Product Managers Need to Create the Conditions for Success With AI
When people talk about product management of the future, the first thing that comes to mind is artificial intelligence (AI). AI is changing the fundamental structure of every industry. We’re interacting with technology in new ways, from giving voice commands to virtual assistants to having Smart ... →
Here Are The Things You Can Do As A Product Manager To Create An Inclusive Environment
Creating a fully diverse and inclusive environment for your employees and clients is still an ongoing challenge for many companies. This struggle for complete diversity is unfortunate because diversity, inclusion and success all go hand in hand! Without a diverse team and an inclusive, safe space... →
What’s Canada’s Product Management Problem?
Canada has all the ingredients to nurture successful companies into the future — with ample support for startups that need a hand in reaching their potential. Known for its strong accelerator and mentor networks, Canada is home to relatively low costs for building companies and its significant go... →