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30 posts
- Jul 2025Scoping the Discovery JourneyIn this post I will explain what are the various stages you need to master in order to conduct a thorough discovery process (“Mastering the Why”). Specifically we’ll discuss the market, the problem domain, the personas, the pains and the solution phases. What does it mean to master each? And when we can skip those.5 min
- Jun 2025Writing Posts at the Age of AIBack then I wrote two posts on how to write a PRD/spec and also provided a template for that. This is still highly relevant. However, PRDs writing can now be accelerated using AI. So if writing specs was a pain point for you, this post will tell you how to accelerate your writing using AI.4 min
- Apr 2025Back to programmingProduct managers can now build prototypes and even apps using the AI no-code and IDE platforms. In this post I’ll share my experience with those.13 min
- May 2024Backlogs? We Don’t Need No St$%#^g Backlogs(If you didn’t get the title – see reference here) If you are working according to Scrum methodology then you are […]5 min
- Feb 2023The Whales in Your Pond – Part 2A year and a half ago I published a post called ‘The Big Whales in Your Pond’. It was about […]8 min
- Jan 2023On Working With Data Scientists – Part 2Welcome back to the ‘how to work with data scientists’ series. This is the second post in the series. In […]19 min
- Sep 2022On Collaborating With Other Product ManagersUnless you’re the sole PM in your company – it’s probably just a matter of time before you’re tasked with […]11 min
- Jul 2022On Working With a UX/UI DesignersIt occurred to me that so far I barely touched the UX and UI aspects of the product management world. […]15 min
- May 2022How to Properly Design a Reporting DashboardHowdy! In this post I’ll cover the basics of how to properly design a reporting dashboard. Wait… what is a […]10 min
- Feb 2022(Don’t) Let It BurnOn infrastructure costs-reduction. Cloud services have been on the rise for more than a decade now and there is a […]10 min
- Feb 2022Can I Kick It?On why you probably don’t need to do a kickoff meeting. I recently heard a podcast produced by a well […]9 min
- Dec 2021Planning Your Career in Product – Part 2In this post we’ll cover what are the various product titles and positions out there, so you’ll understand what each of the PM titles means.14 min
- Dec 2021Oh… We Need an Alert for That…Any product which finds its way to production needs some level of monitoring. After all – it’s serving users & […]12 min
- Dec 2021Renovation Time!The time has come. You finally got the green light you’ve been waiting for. It’s the time to fix all […]11 min
- Sep 2021The Members of Your SwampIs competition a good or a bad thing? As a child I hated competitions, and to some extent I still […]9 min
- Sep 2021Until Debt Tears Us ApartSpending more than a decade in the R&D I can tell you with high confidence that high quality code is […]11 min
- Aug 2021Oh… Not again…From all the major product tasks I’ve been involved with, the quarterly planning was always the most daunting for me. […]9 min
- Aug 2021Communication P1 – The Battle of OpinionsIf you’d ask me what product management is all about I’d tell you it’s 45% focusing on the value, 45% […]9 min
- Jul 2021Writing Specs Like Pro – Part 2In the last post (here) I described the outline of what I consider a good product specification (spec). Over the […]6 min
- Jul 2021Writing Specs Like a Pro – Part 1In the realm of product management - when you want to build something great you’ll probably write a product specification (may be […]12 min
- Jul 2021The Universe You Operate InToday we will travel to an ideal world and understand how an ideal company should structure its product organization. I […]10 min
- Jul 2021Can We Build This? (Pretty Please…)On Working With the R&D Aside from your boss, the guys from the R&D are probably your most important peers. […]10 min
- Jun 2021Interview Like A Pro – Part 3An Interrogation or a conversation – those are the edges of the scale when it comes to how your interview […]12 min
- Jun 2021Interview Like A Pro – Part 2In the previous post we discussed the motivation and the background preparations for interviewing customers. In this post we’ll discuss […]7 min
- Jun 2021Interview Like A Pro – Part 1Today I’d like to discuss a topic that I’ve observed becoming a pitfall for many product managers. And the topic […]13 min
- May 2021Covering All FrontsWhen you are the sole product function in your company. Sometimes you may consider an opportunity where you’ll be the […]11 min
- Apr 2021The Product Delivery Process – Part 3This is the last part of the ‘product delivery process’ series. The first part was about the core principles of […]14 min
- Apr 2021The Product Delivery Process – Part 2This is the second post in the series about the ‘product delivery process’ – the process which covers how a […]11 min
- Apr 2021The Product Delivery Process – Part 1It’s execution time! You know what is the feature you want to be built. You know why it needs to […]12 min
- Apr 2021Is That What They Really Want?Few posts back, we learned how to make sure you fully understand the ‘why’ and the pain it represents when […]8 min