As a leader, it's important to guide your team in prioritizing their work effectively. A popular approach for startups is to use content buckets. The three content buckets that I use with my teams are customer quality of life improvements, new initiatives, and...
Don’t get Stuck Planning
I was on a call with a Head of Product who put together a Roadmap and was trying to define the granular detail of every single item. Every single one of them. No wonder he looked exhausted! That’s a monumental task. Not only is it a ton of work to undertake in the...
When do you stop considering your Product an MVP?
What Does it Mean to Consider a Product an MVP? As a product manager, I'm always thinking about how to ensure the success of the products I'm responsible for. One concept that is particularly important to me is the MVP, or Minimum Viable Product. But what does it...
When everyone chimes in on what to add to the Product
When everyone chimes in on what to add to the Product... PS: Can we also add 1 olive for this customer?
Flintstoning
Let’s face it: if you’ve built a product you know that many times there are things that you’ll have to do manually or else you’ll never launch. And that’s called Flintstoning. Flintstoning is when your product or startup itself lacks a feature, BUT, you can make up...