The Craft of Product Management by Alexander Lowe

Success cannot be achieved by a singular moment of inspiration. Success is achieved by discovering and executing on one idea after another, over and over, while having more successful ideas than not. To do this, you need to have a system that when combined...

The modern Product Manager role can be traced through a chain of events starting in the early 20th century when an enterprising young economist asks, "How can I sell more soap?"
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This is a story of how early 20th century industry moved from manufacturing focused to customer oriented, how the first hint of the product manager as an individual role rather than a distributed company function was conceived, and how the Product Management...

I had the opportunity recenlty to attend a lecture by Edward Tufte in San Francisco.
I entered not knowing what to expect, and I suppose my expectation was that I would be taught a set of practical tactics I could use in my day to day work. I was wrong....

Slow is the persistent constraint of product development. Engineering teams move too slow, customers move too slow, finance and legal move too slow.
So how do we combat slow? Let's change our perspective and look at slow as an attribute that forces us to be better. We can't change the root cause, but we can influence. Managing constraints is a primary part of the job and the velocity constraint needs...