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What product management is and why it’s so relevant today . . . This post is an excerpt from Chapter 1of “Product Leadership” by Richard Banfield, Nate Walkingshaw, and Martin Eriksson. Read the full book on Safari. . . . As Marty Cagan, founding partner of Silicon…

Did you know that the $700M GPS sports watch business was started by a fifth grader who created a lawnmower out of a coffee can, a fan, and a crutch? Well, sort of. Claudette Stevenson was on the forefront of the GPS-enabled…

Product managers mostly hate roadmaps, says Phil Terry, who put it even more bluntly in the title of his article product roadmapping sucks. Serial Boston entrepreneur and current Drift.com CEO David Cancel generally agrees: Some have even gone so far as to…

Ask any product manager how they got into the role, and they are likely to share some story about how it “happened by accident” or “they had some other job and they fell into product management.” Some even say “I didn’t know what…

Why not “The Top 10 Reasons to Attend UX Fest”? Because I already wrote the top 3 reasons to attend, and I stand by that. But I needed to tell you more, so this was my excuse. Here are ten things that…

Have you ever received a text from a family member or a friend that read “I’m feeling lost,” or “I need help,” or “I don’t know what to do”? Or have you, yourself, expressed these feelings to someone via text? We may…