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... →
How to Use Repetition to Flatten the Forgetting Curve
The first and paramount responsibility of a product manager is the difficult task of building a shared understanding of the product strategy through listening, influencing, and repeating. While half of your time should be spent on the creation and management of the product strategy, another porti... →
Why the Product Manager Should Also Play Dumb
According to Alpha’s 2020 Product Management Insights Report, product management has entered the c-suite. As product management influences more high-level decisions and business strategies, partner alignment/collaboration becomes key. Yet the time and rigor required to gather/validate consumer in... →
Product Management: Saying No Without Shutting Them Down
As a product manager, one of the hardest things you have to do is say ‘no’ to ideas, suggestions, requests and urgent demands from customers and internal stakeholders. However, adding the word ‘no’ to your management vocabulary is essential in order to make those difficult product decisions. You ... →
A Day in the Life of a Product Management Consultant
Is something broken in your team’s product management? If the answer is yes, you’re in the right place. At Bain Public, we help build roadmaps and innovative products for early-stage companies. How, you ask? Meet George Korkejian, he joined our team last summer and dedicated himself to support... →
Why Empathy Is the Key to Success for Your Next Product Objective
The secret to success in software development is an elusive concept. Some companies spend years chasing it down. But the secret to success isn’t something you can put a price tag on, stack on features, or advertise in a marketing campaign. The best asset for a product manager, and the number one... →
To Manage a Product Roadmap, You Must Be a Diplomat, Strategist and Defender
It takes commitment to maintain the high level of trust required for company wide buy-in and follow-through. Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. Instead, we ne... →
When Executives Tell You What to Build, They Approve the Development of Unnecessary Features
When building a product strategy, it can get tricky to predict and prevent which features will be of use and which ones will be unnecessary. At Bain Public, we’ve discovered the main issue with building the wrong features, is that they will incur a huge opportunity cost for a business. Therefore,... →