Incident Response: Who does what?
Who does what when something goes wrong? Who owns the actual service and operation of a product: Product, Engineering, or someone else?...
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- 6 days ago
- 1 min
Office Hours Success!
Office hours was a success! I was able to meet so many wonderful founders and product managers. We talked about: * How to get a true...
- Aug 29
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Learning to fly
I'd like to talk about personal growth for a minute. My family and I just got back from a much-needed vacation to the Outer Banks. It was...
- Aug 1
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Getting access to your B2B customers
One question that keeps coming up in my Office Hours is around testing new product ideas with customers, in a B2B context. Sometimes in...
- Aug 1
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Localization: 4 things to consider
Localization can drive up costs pretty steeply. So it’s important to think about some key things up front.
- Jul 21
- 22 min
Product Management Consulting Q&A with Women in Product
On July 7, I had the pleasure of talking product management consulting with several folks from the Women in Product group. This is a...
- Jun 26
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Remember the Viable in MVP
We product types talk a lot about MVP - Minimum Viable Product. The concept is simple: your first pass at a new product should be the...
- Jun 6
- 5 min
Why getting the data right is so important
Many products rely on data to function correctly and to show information that’s useful. Getting that data right is so incredibly vital....
- May 3
- 1 min
We built a thing!
Last week, I visited a client I always love to see. This trip was bittersweet though, because I spent it transitioning off the product I...
- Apr 6, 2022
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Problems and Solutions Belong Together
When I got my first Business Analyst job, a lot of what I did was meet with users and potential users to understand their needs. Whether...
- Jul 20, 2021
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Wrangling a portfolio of software products
Product management is one thing. But what if you have an entire portfolio of products to manage?
- Jul 19, 2021
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Our product philosophy
Products should be useful, and they should be high quality. Read more about Ninth Fourth's product philosophy.
- Jun 14, 2021
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Product Management at Traditional Corporations vs. Startups
When someone asked me to explain the difference in products at software startups vs. big, traditional enterprise, it got me thinking.
- Apr 20, 2021
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What's in a name?
When looking at your experience or your degree, don't just look at what it was called. Look at what you actually did!
- Apr 13, 2021
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Missed our risk webinar? Watch the replay!
Watch the replay of "Preventing Disaster: How to get ahead - and stay ahead - of business and product risk".
- Mar 18, 2021
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We sat down with 10 founders & heads of product. Find out what they had to say.
We sat down with 10 founders and heads of product to learn how they approach product management. Find out what they had to say!
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Founders & Product Leaders know the soft skills are vital.
Soft skills play a critically important role in the success of any startup.
- Feb 4, 2021
- 2 min
Risk is everywhere. Staying ahead of it is hard.
From staffing decisions and supply chain issues, dealing with the swirl of risk management is an ongoing, daily issue.
- Jan 25, 2021
- 4 min
So your devs are underwhelming
A product manager in a community I belong to recently asked how to deal with just this problem, and I’m guessing it’s a fairly common one.
- Jan 25, 2021
- 4 min
How to go to market faster
In just a couple weeks, we got years of work piled on us and multiple departments angry about delays. Read how I cleared the backlog.
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