9 Best Articles in 2021
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The 87 Most Essential Tools For Data-Driven Product Managers
indicative.com
20+ min read · From 2016 · Successful data-driven product managers need a variety of different tools, skills, and capabilities that cut across many domains.
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Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
medium.com
7 min read · From 2015 · Life’s too short to build something nobody wants…
HackerNoon
The Ultimate Guide to Minimum Viable Product
HackerNoon
10 min read · From 2016 · Please raise your hand, if you’ve ever heard about minimum viable product (MVP) and have no clue what it is. When you talk to software…
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The Most Important Rule in UX Design that Everyone Breaks
Prototypr.IO
9 min read · From 2017 · In Product Design, and Possibly Life Management
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Why Trello Failed to Build a $1 Billion+ Business
Journal 🐿
~11 min read · From 2017 · In 2011, Joel Spolsky launched his company Fog Creek’s new product at TechCrunch Disrupt called Trello. It looked a lot like a whiteboard…
Paul Graham
Do Things that Don't Scale
Paul Graham
~16 min read · From 2015 · July 2013One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build…
First Round
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit
First Round
~20 min read · From 2018 · Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring…
Journal 🐿
How To Design a Bulletproof Product Strategy
Journal 🐿
8 min read · From 2018 · Anytime a company consistently ships product faster than the average, people will assume they are doing something heroic.
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Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
basecamp.com
7 min read · 2019-07-11 · This book is a guide to how we do product development at Basecamp. It’s also a toolbox full of techniques that you can apply in your own way to your own process. Whether you’re a founder, CTO, product manager, designer, or developer, you’re probably here because of some common challenges that all software companies have to face.
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The 5 pillars of UX strategy
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6 min read · Apr 4th · These 5 things drive UX product strategy success
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TBM 13/52: Asking Better Questions (Part 2)
John Cutler
4 min read · Apr 1st · I have a book for sale! You can read it free here. Or download the ebook here. Or tip. In this post I am going to briefly describe a board design I use to elicit questions. At the day-job (Amplitude)…
Mind the Product
The importance of metrics maturity for evidence-driven teams
Mind the Product
7 min read · Mar 30th · Everyone wants to be in an evidence-driven team, using research and data to drive their product decisions. We all know it’s the best way to work, but what does it mean in practice? How can you tell if…
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What do you think about project-based roadmaps versus outcome-based (metric-based) roadmaps?
askgib.substack.com
5 min read · Mar 26th · Short answer: Both require you articulate product strategies (problems to be solved), metrics (lead indicators), then guess which projects will move your metrics, over time. Choose what works for you.
John Cutler
TMB 12/52: Breaking the Wicked Loop
John Cutler
2 min read · Mar 25th · Almost every team has experienced a period of time when: Goals don’t stick Decisions drift There are repeated (but unsuccessful) efforts to reset It is a wicked loop, and feels like you’re going in…
Mind the Product
Bets, Boards, Missions and North Stars by John Cutler
Mind the Product
2 min read · Mar 29th · In this ProductTank Barcelona talk, John Cutler talks about bets, boards, missions, and north stars explaining how to apply them in your organisation, and why it's important.
coda.io
Pre-mortems: How a Stripe Product Manager predicts & prevents problems before launch
coda.io
5 min read · Apr 9th · How my team uses pre-mortems to prevent major problems for important launches and initiatives.
Harvard Business Review
Research: How to Get Better at Killing Bad Projects
Harvard Business Review
5 min read · Apr 3rd · Lessons from a 10-year review of Sony Ericsson’s product development process.
Marty Cagan
Discovery – Excuses
Marty Cagan
5 min read · Mar 27th · In this article I’d like to continue with the series on common problems with product discovery. So far I’ve talked about the difference between learnings and insights, the differences that result from…
John Cutler
TBM 14/52: Discussing Complex Problems with Leaders
John Cutler
2 min read · Apr 8th · I am chatting with Emily Campbell, VP of Product at BookClub today (Thursday) at noon PT on Clubhouse. My conversations with Emily are always super enlightening and inspiring. Join us! Also, I have a…
