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Every Product Manager Needs Product Development Team

In today’s world, there are a number of thriving companies. There are, however, many more companies that don’t end up thriving. Don’t you ever question why? The most common reason for these entrepreneurial failures is a lack of sufficient market validation and market validation mistakes. There ar...

Avoiding Burnout: What You Can Do To Maintain a Work-Life Balance

We all have too much to do and too little time to do it. Especially during the holiday season as the year is coming to an end. As a product manager, you may have already learned how to plan and prioritize a product roadmap. But how can you help yourself do the same? How do you keep yourself from ...

3 Pictures That Will Shape Your View Of Bain Public SOAP™

We created SOAP™ an actionable 12-week virtual workshop series to help you jump through the hoops of prioritization and roadmap planning by using a clear, measurable, reproducible process for prioritizing features and initiatives. SOAP™ is a methodology that we developed for product planning and ...

Are You A Coachable Product Leader?

It’s rare for me to find a company whose strategy is specific and actionable enough to prioritize product work. When faced with a laundry list of strategies filled with 5, 8 or 13 tactical goals, it can be very difficult to prioritize anything. While most of your roadmap initiatives support on...

Halloween Spooktacular: The Dark Side of Product Management

We’ve all been there. Your very first break into product management. In the startup world, a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. People think that product managers operate this very critical, high-leverage function that, when executed correctly, greatly facilitate...