The Best Articles in Product Management

John Cutler's answer: The future of product management will involve a move towards The Catalyst archetype below (and Technologist for specific domains). There are a couple of reasons for this: 1. Data available to teams, affordable tooling to cross-pollinate insights, the speed of feedback, and ...

Learn how an effective project status report can cut down on meetings and messages, clear up confusion, identify and resolve issues quickly, and ensure everyone’s on the same page.

If you’ve ever had the joys of working in both an early stage startup and a large corporation, you’ll understand the difference between a company with an operating cadence of ‘run’ and a company with…

When a company grows quickly, it undergoes stress. The faster the growth, the more the stress. Structure can make the situation better, but only if it is designed correctly for growth. Good structure…

With product management often requiring a diverse bunch of different skill sets, it can be overwhelming to try to structure your day in a way that optimises each of the activities these skill sets are…

Task estimation is hard because you don't actually know what task estimation is. Let me fix that for you.

Alma founder and CEO Harry Ritter sits down with First Round partner Todd Jackson to tell the story of how he tackled a huge pandemic pivot that turned his initial startup idea on its head and found…

Why positioning determines victors in SaaS and AI.

Labelbox co-founder and CEO Manu Sharma sits down with First Round partner Todd Jackson to tell the story of how he prioritized idea validation and customer discovery before building Labelbox.

Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As…

Intercom’s Des Traynor and Fergal Reid share field notes on what other builder teams should know as they transform their products with language models.

ICYMI we are launching a pilot where we partner with a limited number of companies to place fractional execs in the Operations and People roles. If you or someone you know needs interim help, you can…

As I’ve learned more about how humans interact with one another at work, I’ve been repeatedly reminded that we are very easily influenced by the mood of thos...

A deceptively simple productivity and management tool

«At its core, the weekly email has two headings with 3–5 short bullet points each: achievements this week and priorities next week. Under the former, you list the 3–5 most important things you got done this week, under the latter, the 3–5 most important things you want to get done the following week.»

Let’s talk about technical debt. Let’s talk about practical usable approaches for actually paying it down on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. Let’s talk about what debt needs to be fixed…

«Nevertheless, it’s easy to point at this sort of dilemma as debt, which mistakenly implies that some previous decision or mistake is responsible, when it’s possible your position is the result of your own success, or, you know, the world just changing.»

Unexpected time to write today… (I wrote a post about Product-Reality Fit yesterday). Have you ever been in a discussion about the definition of a problem and found the whole conversation going in…

Amanda Schwartz Ramirez, former PayPal strategy leader and now COO advisor for startups, shares the 5 biggest fears that can derail your company's strategic planning sessions (and tactical advice for…

A guide to making the transition to manager

Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question about planning. I enjoyed their response, “Ah yes, the ‘P’ word, planning.” That answer captured an…

By Regina Gerbeaux (@_rpgbx)

Veteran product leader Jiaona Zhang walks us through the biggest lessons from her entire career in product at Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork and now Webflow, from breaking into the function as a first-time…

Lindsey, Kevin, Taj, and Lou discuss what they do off of the clock. Whether it’s contracting, inventing, tinkering, or just spending time to recharge, hear what the crew has to say about their…

Taj and Lou discuss what it's like to incorporate risk into your Product work and how to take strategic bets. Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter & check out our website @…

Justin Blumenthal is product manager at Coinbase where he leads P2P crypto payments and the Coinbase Card. During his time at Coinbase, Justin launched new features including multichain send and…

Adam Wanninger is on the show! Adam is a FinTech Product Leader at Fortune 100 companies, including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. Kevin and Adam discuss how test coverage contributes to building a…