So, you want to start a career in Product Management? Great! This is one of the few “fast track” career paths that can be extremely lucrative and rewarding. In fact, as you read on, you’ll find some great ways to start your career in Product Management. First, let’s look at the definition of Product: The […]

A big part of how to write good user stories is to help teams find ways to organize their work in a way that follows agile values and principles. We order that backlog by value trying to build the highest value first. User Stories are agile in and of themselves, but they can be used

We’ve all heard it before, location, location location. Since we’re human, we want everyone to know what we’re doing, how we’re doing it, why we’re doing it, and where we’re doing it. And where I am right now is a precious piece of information, a few thoughts? Leveraging location is about following a new kind

Early in my career as a Product Manager at Vulkanostudio, someone told me that the best knack to crack would be an ability to “get things done”. It was their best tip for me as a newbie in this field, because they had found it to be the fastest way to get things moving in

The Dunning-Kruger effect: the less we know, the smarter we think we are. We all have encountered people who have an attitude of a know-it-all. And go on and on a topic at length with proclaiming others’ opinions as useless and wrong. The Dunning-Kruger effect teaches us that people with fewer skills, abilities and knowledge

As a Scrum Master, having a coaching conversation with your team’s low performer can be really hard, especially when you are the first to reveal that things aren’t going well. You’ll need your communication skills. Here is a four-step preparation strategy that you can use to handle such conversations. Items required: Pen & Notebook (you

Product Managers use software development metrics to plan and control the software development process and make decisions about process changes measuring the right things.  I divide software development metrics into two types: Agile process metrics to assess a software development project’s health and the productivity of the teams involved: For agile and lean processes, the

Road Map or statement of intent It’s a plan of action that aligns the organization around short- and long-term goals for the product or project, and how they will be achieved. The first step is to use the top-down product planning approach. This process starts with a crystal clear understanding of the product vision. It’s important to know where

𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹 👉Do you want to write a user story for it?👉Why don’t you add it as an agenda item to the next QPS meeting? I’m sorry your topic got bumped. We can always discuss it next quarter.👉If you could get the engineering resources, I’ll gladly PM it for you. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲