Many things motivate people — it’s worth taking note.
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Years ago I interviewed for a Google Product Manager role and didn’t get it. What I was missing was humility.
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When the feeling of speed actually means you’re going slower.
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You know your personality type, but do you know your bosses, co-worker's, partner's, or that cute guy/gal's at the coffee shop? It's actually quite simple to reverse engineer anyone's type – even if you barely know them.
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The best teams aren’t made of best the individual players. This insight is how a startup can compete with big companies for talent.
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Every company or product failure I've seen has gone against this truth.
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As a non-technical founder, I’ve always had to find people to help me build my ideas. Many freelancers over the years didn’t work out, costing me a lot of time and money. Looking back though, the problem always came back to me and my approach. This post shares the system I use today that's based on the lessons I’ve learned, and which has led to a string of great hires.
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An out of control backlog is a drain on a team: work gets lost, time’s wasted, everyone's anxious, and morale drops as it never seems to stop growing. The problem with the accepted practices of backlog management is that they require a lot of overhead to keep things organized. Here are a few simple rules I took from my time working in warehouses that will help keep your backlog under control with less work.
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You don’t want to drown your teams in busy-work. Here’s a simple way to think about how much is enough.
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If you’ve ever made a feature request for a product and it never got built, this flowchart will help explain why. It shows the questions asked by a product manager when deciding if something should be worked on, passed on, or revisited later.
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