Category: Product Management

Let’s face it, no one can escape the huge elephant in the room currently: the massive, endless, layoffs in the tech industry. Did you know that since the start of 2022, there have been more than 200,000 tech layoffs, according to layoffs.fyi? The first month of 2023 alone has seen more than 67,000 layoffs globally!…

Remember that quote by Brene Brown that I absolutely love? Maybe stories are just data with a soul. Brene Brown There’s a reason I love it. To me it conveys two things: It’s the data really that informs your next strategic move as a Product person. So why would you not build it into all…

Storytelling is the vivid description of ideas and experiences through stories that evoke powerful emotions. Stories impact us on an emotional level, and emotions motivate us to act. Well guess what people? Successful products are all about enticing experiences and actions! If you can get the users of your product hooked to the story enough…

Have you ever noticed how every other person not in Product but within a customer impacting role wants to break into Product Management somehow? Your support analysts, QAs, engineers, business consultants, implementers, the co-op kid just in for 3 months – you name it! It makes for a pretty coveted career path. And then there’s…

Because I check all the checkboxes/circles below. This image has been making the rounds on the internet again and it cracks me up each time. That’s really why we do Product Management, right? Because we don’t get tired of answering, or asking, endless why’s thanks to our own curiosity. Curiosity never really killed the cat…