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you actually need to do the opposite and reduce your scope by shedding parts of your responsibility to enable new teams around them. This feels very counterintuitive after years of trying to gain additional scope. But the decision here is that you can either keep it all yourself and do a B job at it, or you can shed these areas to enable them to... See more

At the end of meetings, check in with people who’ve been quiet to see if they have anything to add.Before finalizing your strategy, roadmap, or spec, give your team a chance to give feedback asynchronously.Organize brainstorms and ofter types of ideation sessions where team members can contribute their ideas.

Retention - not only does it make companies - but it also breaks them. For this reason, poor user retention has become the silent killer. In this post, I will walk you through the three key ways that companies go wrong when it comes to retention: They deprioritize retention altogether, They define their retention metrics incorrectly, They don’t

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Product Goals are set within the context of the Product Roadmap and Product Strategy. They are not valuable in and of themselves, but as a measure of progress towards a pre-determined plan that generates value for the customer.A good Product Goal is objectively measurable. Most often, a goal is defined as an impact to a quantifiable metric—such as... See more

A common tweak of the SCR format is to move the Resolution to the top, i.e. Resolution-Situation-Complication. This works best when your audience doesn’t need convincing and is ready to hear your recommendation immediately.Unlike a story, in a business context you’ll want to spend a limited amount of time on the S and C, so that you can get to the... See more

it is the connective tissue between the objectives of the company (its mission and its strategy) and the work of the product team (product roadmap and goals).

there needs to be a strong concept of the arrow of time. What is it that causes time to advance? What is entropy in your world? This concept, maybe more than anything else, is the foundation on which your world gets built.

Many teams may not even know they need a product manager. Focus on the value you can offer by working backward from their problems, their goals, and their community ethos, and find alignment in your own interests and experience.

12. Great PMs make sure everyone has a chance to be heard