Large-Scale Retrospectives: Six Thinking Hats
Here is a fun technique to help you facilitate large-scale retrospectives based on de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats for product design and innovation. Enjoy! Six Thinking Hats Retrospective instructions
Top Ten Signs That Your Product Manager Isn’t Agile
Blog Editor's Note: This post originally appeared in late 2008 when we were Enthiosys. I'm very interested in whether anyone else agrees that the list still resonates. Enjoy. Originally Published October 20, 2008 Here at Enthiosys [now Applied Frameworks] we spend a lot of time helping Product Managers become Agile. ...
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How to Get Just Enough Research as a Product Manager
Blog Editor's Note: Luke Hohmann published many great posts for Enthiosys.com. We plan to re-publish his original posts (with only minor edits) over the next several months. We may add new commentary to update the content and generate new discussion. Originally published June 3rd 2009 Product Managers, Agile or otherwise, ...
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How to Manage P&L as a Product Manager
It’s fairly common for product managers to be asked to act like “mini-CEOs” or “the president of the product." Good idea in concept but harder to implement in real life. Even if you don’t have actual control over P&L, you can control reporting of P&L. Try using a scorecard approach, ...
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Product Manager: First Days on the Job
You’re in your first days as a product manager. In no time, your calendar is full and you have a zillion emails. There’s so much to do. Where to begin? Before the demands of others overwhelm you, you need to prepare yourself to be the business and market liaison to ...
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Is Product Marketing the Same as Marketing? (I say no)
I’m often asked to differentiate product marketing from marketing (or marketing communications, if you prefer). This effort gets confusing for most because of the term “marketing.” I’ve long been uncomfortable with the term “marketing.” For many of us, marketing is a philosophy. Marketing is looking at the business from the ...
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Chief Product Owner: Your First Days as Head of Product Management
Take time to work on the business, not just in the business.—Richard Rhodes Do you lead a new product management team? Where should you begin? In The Earth is Flat, Thomas Friedman expressed his view of the government’s primary role: to provide infrastructure. Make it easy to start a business, ...
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How to Survive Performance Reviews in Product Management
In my first job out of college, I was a programmer in Fort Worth. The job was challenging but not very clearly defined so it took me a while to find a good working scenario. By the end of my first year, I knew what I was doing but I ...
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Become a Great Product Manager
Product management is an exciting role. It can drive product direction and ensure your team builds the right product for the market. It can also be a frustrating job because other departments have expectations of product management that rarely align with yours. Building expertise There are three types of desired ...
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How I became a product manager
I didn't necessarily plan for a career in product management. I spent time in development. I spent time in sales, sales engineering, and customer training and implementation. These and my college courses somewhat, perhaps accidentally, prepared me for the job. I majored in marketing and minored in computer science at the ...
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