Shreyas Doshi is one of the best product leaders in the public sphere to learn from. So when he mentioned that he was launching a course on Maven, I immediately grabbed a spot in the first cohort. …

People bang-on about product managers needing to be data-driven. But like many things in building products, it’s more nuanced than that. Being data-driven is simplistic. A machine can make decisions based on data. Algorithms can be made to choose the best path forward based on data. …

I heard about the LNO framework from Shreyas Doshi. For a product manager, it’s a powerful way of thinking about your todo list, to ensure you’re delivering valuable output consistently. It started when Shreyas joined Google. He had a hard time keeping pace with the high performance environment. He had…

The ability to consistently do deep work is a valuable advantage for many jobs in the knowledge economy, but for product managers, it’s a superpower that will quickly set you apart from the pack. The role of a product manager is distracting and varied by default. it makes cultivating deep…

The quality distribution of product teams probably resembles something like a bell curve. Most teams are in the middle: average, sometimes doing good things, sometimes not. A smaller portion are plain terrible. …

A few years back I took the SVPG Inspired Workshop in London, run by Marty Cagan, and felt it was the best training I’ve had on Product Management. The course was based on the ideas in his excellent book Inspired. Last year Marty released a follow-up book called Empowered (also…

If you haven’t heard of Prof G before, then it’s perhaps a little surprising, because the guy seems to be everywhere at the moment. Also known as Scott Galloway, the NYU Professor of Marketing is a best-selling author (both The Four and the The Algebra of Happiness are good…

I recently completed the new online Stanford course Product Management: Transforming Opportunities into Great Products. Before signing up I had a look for reviews, but since the course is fairly new I didn’t find many, so I thought I’d share my insights for others considering the course. In summary…

The Innovator’s Dilemma gets more of the headlines, but the follow-up book by Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Solution, is a far more useful piece of work. The Innovator’s Solution starts out by describing the ‘dilemma’, and in one chapter removes the need to even read the original work. It then…