How are tech products built? What is the process? How does product management work these days? Here is my way. Let’s start from the 10’000ft view. A company interacts with a market. It provides some value to the market through the means of a product, and in return can extract some value (money, data, attention […]
This will be a short post. Volumes have been written on the product development (delivery) process. Do something agile (not SAFe). I will however focus on the product management perspective on this. I use the acronym “PR” (as in pull request, the thing engineers do to integrate code) to refer to the two core aspects […]
Discovery is not delivery. Clearly distinguishing the two will bring much clarity to a product team’s work. Discovery is about finding out what has value to the user and the business. It essentially answers the question “what to build?”. Discovery is a learning process. By advancing our understanding of the opportunity we we are pursuing […]
The teams are busy. The managers are managing, the makers are making. Everyone is pushing hard, going the extra mile, giving their all. Panic. The (invented a.k.a. budgeted) numbers are not being achieved by the big release everyone worked so hard for. Fear starts spreading. I can hear the executives calling: “We need solutions!”, so […]
As a product leader it is my job to inspire and set the context for the product teams. Here I describe what I mean by setting context, why it is necessary and how I do it. Innovation Building products is hard. It requires a good understanding of the job the user is trying to accomplish. […]
The smallest group of caring, empowered, competent people who trust each other and are driven by a common mission is what I call the Product Team Kernel. The kernel is the first part of the operating system to load into memory during booting (i.e., system startup), and it remains there for the entire duration of the computer […]