There’s been a lot of confusion around brainstorming these days. First, there was the New Yorker article by Jonah Lehrer claiming that brainstorming doesn’t work. Scott Berkun wrote a rebuttal […]
4 Questions I Always Ask When Interviewing Product Managers
This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. As part of my consulting practice, I often help companies recruit product managers and interaction designers. As […]
Social Contagion: How I Went From No Mobile Gaming to Addicted in 36 Hours
I spent this past weekend with my siblings. Four of the five of us, plus my brother-in-law, spent a good amount of the weekend playing Words with Friends, Draw Something, […]
Even Knowing The Rules, Why We Still Can’t Write Stories Like Pixar
There’s been a lot of buzz this week about the Pixar story rules being tweeted by Emma Coates (@lawnrocket). But don’t expect a whole new crop of Pixar-like storytellers to […]
Why the BranchOut Decline Isn’t Surprising
Earlier this week, ERE wrote this article about the rapid decline of BranchOut over the past 30 days. Peaking at 13.9 million monthly active users at the end of April, they […]
What a Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Can Teach Us About Building Great Products
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) I just finished reading “Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman”, a series of short stories or essays by Richard Feynman that […]
User Stories Are Better Than PRDs
In the previous post, we focused on how product managers share customer knowledge with engineers. We discussed how user personas are an effective way of telling the customer’s story. We […]
Sharing Knowledge: From Product Manager to Engineers
This is the second post in a four part series on Sharing Knowledge in Product Management. The first part looked at sharing knowledge from customers to product manager. This part […]
