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The Product Manager's Guide to Backlog Grooming (Reboot)

As a product manager, you’re probably used to getting plenty of feature requests thrown your way. Let’s face it, wishlists are a pain and the hardest part is having to validate the various ideas, requests and suggestions. Do they solve a problem? Do they address a customer need? Do they align wit...

It’s Time To Get Serious About Developing Product Muscle

It’s amazing how many companies have lost their product mojo when they replaced their product-oriented founder with a CEO coming from sales, marketing, business development or finance. Unfortunately, CEOs that are sales or finance-led believe acquisitions or managing costs is the key to growth. B...

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...

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...