Why do you write product requirements? We used to write long product requirement documents to communicate the solution we wanted our engineering teams to build. But over time we learned […]
Product Managers Don’t Own the Problem (And Designers Don’t Own the Solution)
Imagine a product team discussing new commenting functionality on their company blog. “We should let people comment anonymously.” “That will only attract trolls. We should require real names.” “We should […]
Take a Team Approach to Product Delivery
Jim, like many product mangers, spends most of his day with his engineering team. He clarifies requirements, triages bugs, and seeks out hidden dependencies. Sally, on the other hand, spends […]
Your Title Doesn’t Matter
If you’ve been reading Product Talk for long, you’ve probably noticed that I sometimes blur the lines between product management and user experience design. I started out as an interaction […]
Fix Delivery to Make Time for Discovery
“How do we know if we are building the right things?” “We are building feature after feature but to what end?” “How do we know what customers really want or […]
Why You Can (And Should) Experiment When Building Enterprise Products
Every time I speak about hypothesis testing, I get a series of questions about how to run experiments from people working on enterprise products. The assumption behind these questions is […]
Run Experiments Before You Write Code
The Lean Startup has a flaw. It’s a simple one. It advocates the feedback loop: Build -> Measure -> Learn. I agree wholeheartedly with this loop. The flaw is in […]
My Favorite Books Read in 2014
I’ve read 60 books (so far) this year. These were my favorites. If you like these reviews, I’ll be launching a blog after the new year about the books that […]
