This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. Over the past two weeks, I’ve talked about how you don’t need experience to become a product […]
Gain Product Management Experience By Starting Right Now
This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. Last week, I wrote about how you don’t need specific experience to become a product manager. Too […]
You Don’t Need Experience To Become a Product Manager
This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. What does it take to get into product management? What’s the requisite experience? Are certificates worthwhile? Do […]
Brainstorming: More Questions Than Answers
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 […]
