Advice for Product Managers
Career advice, education advice, team-building advice: this blog focuses on advice for product managers to be successful in their job.
I read my New Years resolutions from the past 5 years, and there are definitely some common themes.
Here’s a template for New Years resolutions all product managers can use.
Trying to prep for your first product management interview… as an engineer?
Here are 7 high-level questions you should be prepared to talk about, and three pitfalls to avoid.
How do you get started building a partner product, especially when each partner may have slightly different goals?
Here are 4 important tips to get started with partner product management.
I have two weeks until I start my new job, and I want to show up on Day 1 as prepared as possible.
How should you prepare for a new product management role?
I've heard from both the Tech Ladies and Women in Product Facebook groups that the #1 question(s) received have to do with how to negotiate salary for a new job.
Here are 5 tips for negotiating the best possible product manager offer.
What should you expect when interviewing for a product role?
Here are 3 types of product manager interviews I’ve encountered recently.
You’re checking out other jobs, but you’re not sure it’s the right time to move on.
When should you make a move, and when should you stay put?
When making important career decisions, it’s important to follow your calculated passion.
What does that mean?
Let me tell you a short personal story to explain…
I got root canal this week, and it made me think about what an enormously empathetic person my dentist is. “Product managers can learn a lot from her,” I thought.
Here are 3 ways in which you can use empathy to build stronger teams, and stronger products.
If you're a product manager searching for your North Star, try writing the press release you envision for your product once it's ready for launch.
Here’s how to do this simple exercise in 4 steps.
As a product manager, it's important that you're respected by your peers, and also by your engineering teams.
Here are 5 basic things engineers expect from their product managers.
You've been managing your half-build product for over a month. Now you need to keep that momentum going.
Here are some tips for managing a half-built product, beyond Month 1.
Dealing with a huge list of varied customer feature requests?
How do you prioritize?
Try these 6 steps for prioritizing a giant list of customer asks.
You're past the first week; You now understand the goals and the timeline, and your team is working well together. Now you're ready to make some real progress.
Here are 5 steps for Taking Over a Half-Built Product, Weeks 2-4.
As product managers, we rarely have the luxury of being assigned a brand-new product or feature to manage. Most of us take over a product or feature that's 'in progress.' As product managers, we're often picking up where another PM left off.
Here are 5 steps for Week 1 of picking up a mid-build product.
During my own recent customer journey buying a Tesla product, I noted 6 things that Tesla did during the sales process that added up to incredible product storytelling.
All product managers can learn from this experience.
When writing a product or feature brief... or a PRD... where to start?
Most people looking at a product or feature brief are trying to answer one of these 5 questions.
Make sure they're answered in your documentation.
The right tools can make good product managers look even better.
Here are my top 3 tools that every product manager should know about.
Ask your boss if you can attend one of these events - today!
Get that early-in-the-year budget earmarked to attend these product management conferences.
A product manager I (virtually) know surveyed 30 product executives and senior product managers in the US.
Here are 10 pieces of awesome product management career advice that I pulled out of her findings.
One of your responsibilities as a product manager is to build a cohesive team. Cohesive teams build awesome products.
How does one build a cohesive team? Here are 5 tips you can start today.
Updated for 2019: Ask your boss if you can attend one of these events - today!
Get that early-in-the-year budget earmarked to attend these product management conferences.