The weekly curated resources list for
Product professionals
The weekly curated resources list for
Product professionals
Receive a hand picked list of the best reads on building products that matter every week. Curated by Anders Toxboe. Published every Tuesday.
The best resources on Team dynamics.
One of the best ways for product teams to follow your vision is by articulating your products design principles
Running experiments for your product and business can be overwhelming, but there are ways to manage the process by following three simple principles.
How to Grow an Agile Product Team
Why limiting work in progress can increase flow and value in product development
Make Decisions Based on Learning
A comprehensive list of the best pieces startup advice there is
Responsibility vs Accountability The Trust Paradox of Self-Organising Teams
'Two weeks is simply not enough time to actually accomplish anything meaningful.'
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
Give people the resources and bandwidth to test out new ideas. Innovation and the freedom to experiment go hand-in hand.
How everything youve learned about being a leader can work against you when creating a culture of experimentation.
AI could just replace a product manager all together –but to begin with: make it much more fun
Building solutions collaboratively is impossible if youre getting feature requests from stakeholders and executing on those requests.
The Pinterest Growth team has over 100 members, and weve run thousands of experiments over the years. Its difficult to run that many experiments and still maintain a high success rate over time
Agree on Working Norms: 5 Ways to Help Your Product Team Thrive
Have you been endlessly defending why it takes 9 months to design and launch a product with no guarantee of success? Think again.
Product ops is a new and rapidly growing field within the tech industry. Product ops professionals are responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of product development projects.
Great engineers leave when they are no longer excited by an opportunity.
When figuring out what to build is as important as the building process
How the people behind the roles that shape your world think.
Apply lessons from Wargames to shape overall vision, communicate effectively and ship products successfully.
Following recipes is the beginning of your agile transformation. To reach true agility you must become a chef.
A tool for building innovative teams
Innovation comes from those closest to the products.
How to progress from covering the foundations to becoming an exceptional PM.
How using all of design thinking, agile, and lean means we can build better products.
Accountability and responsibility, two words often used interchangeably but carry vastly different implications particularly when it comes to culture and cultivating trust and autonomous teams.
How to create a structure that gave teams enough flexibility to be creative, while living with corporate constraints.
This article is certain to upset many people.
Most people doing tech today, whether they have a technical background or a business background, probably have a services mindset rather than a product mindset. Why is this ingrained mindset important to understand when you are operating in the product world?
Thanks to Tony Santos and Melanie Hambarsoomian.
OKR require agility to succeed. The basics of Scrum provide the exact right scaffolding for this.
Study interviewed 20 growth leads to help you answer how to build your organization around growth
How to get your team on the same page and agreeing on the roadmap
Latest from me on how to make experimentation a repeatable leanstartup
When you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techniques.
The very properties that make Agile so powerful for teams to produce better quality outcomes for business are precisely those properties that make it resistant.
Think you can keep your good old matrix organisation and simply rename it to "The Spotify Model"? Think again!
Why Business Outcomes Are Often Assigned to Product Teams
To better understand the different nature of growth teams compared to other departments in the organization, we first need to clear up what's the difference between an outcome and an output. Some
Clearing up roles & creating a new norm together
Product managers have the responsibility, but not the authority to deliver product results, so influence often becomes a key to success.
To ensure design thinking really works, leaders must provide a clear direction.
From directing product teams with tasks to making the team investigate solutions to goals
Short and recurring discovery cycles are better than long discovery phases.
The right path to getting teams to reset and rethink their approach to growth is easier than it sounds.
Have we reached the point where agile-or-not has proven to be a false dichotomy?
None of this can happen without a dedicated designer assigned to the scrum team.
There's no one-size-fits-all growth advice. Brian Rothenberg, former VP of Growth at Eventbrite, breaks down the three broad phases of the startup lifecycle. For each phase, he identifies key targets that startups should aim for to kick their growth strategy to the next level.
A step-by-step guide to becoming a great Product Manager: A Learning Path to help aspiring and growing Product Managers break into the role and level up.
And product coaching is how we get there.
The Process is the Product
How to stand up for for long-term interests of the company and its target customers.
Here's their formula: Its much better to have a couple of fast-moving teams duplicate effort than to have both of those teams lose days.
Business agility is not a specific methodology or even a general framework.
There are two kinds of work, and there's no way around it: Discovery Delivery
Marty Cagan: OKRs are a waste of time if you doing feature teams (instead of product teams).
A Partnership, not a Battlefield. What high performing Product Teams actually look like
If youve heard the term dual-track development before, this article explains where it comes from, and what it means. Here are the key points:
Beyond the Usual OKR approach Since I first started writing about OKRs seven years ago, I have had a lot of companies reach out to me for advice. OKRs were originally envisioned to create focus on
It's not just about pitching ideas well – you've also got to prepare a soft landing for them
Truly agile teams enjoy the ability, desire and safety to respond to change over following a plan.
When people over-optimize on the practices rather than letting the best principles guide their thought process, they limit their options for achieving success.
How everything youve learned about being a leader can work against you when creating a culture of experimentation. Chances are, you jumped in way over your head and learned as much as possible, as
Sketching Helps You Think
In every company, there are invariably more problems than people have the time to deal with. At best, this results in circumstances where minor issues are overlooked. At worst, ongoing firefighting depletes the resources available to an operation.
And how to run great product team meetings.
Stop fighting fires... Easy to say, hard to do. Right?
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