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Fear is Not What is Holding You Back
January 7, 2014
Fear is Not What is Holding You Back

Do you often wonder why you sacrifice your personal aspirations for what’s comfortable? Have you always wanted to pursue an idea or start that company, but have given up…

Buyer Personas and Product Management
December 19, 2013
Buyer Personas and Product Management

We all build the best products when we instinctively understand the challenges our customers are facing and what they are trying to accomplish. This is easy if we do the…

Blame Your Product Manager
December 5, 2013
Blame Your Product Manager

Sharing product strategy with the team is vital to being a great product manager. Learn the 3 key parts of a successful strategy so you can build winning products…

You’re Not Agile Unless You’re “agile”
December 2, 2013
You’re Not Agile Unless You’re “agile”

The single most common question that I run into nowadays is which process is the “best” one to be Agile, with a capital “A.” And people are often surprised when I tell…

The Alpha Product Manager
November 20, 2013
The Alpha Product Manager

Alpha product managers have a few traits in common. Discover the top 3 ways alpha product managers outshine most leaders.

How I Was Unbanned from Hacker News
November 14, 2013
How I Was Unbanned from Hacker News

Somehow I managed to become what I thought was hellbanned from Hacker News. I was ready to apologize for sinning — to bow down to the Internet gods of geeky and fresh…

VCs Will Not Save You from the Startup Death Spiral
November 11, 2013
VCs Will Not Save You from the Startup Death Spiral

Your startup is in a death spiral if the following is true — your team is making more and more radical bets, despite fewer and fewer indicators that your efforts will be…

Scrum — Your False God of Innovation
October 15, 2013
Scrum — Your False God of Innovation

Scrum will make a zealot out of you. And a growing number of product managers and engineering teams are fervent disciples. The problem is that it does not lead to…