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85: The agency trap

85: The agency trap

Posted on Wednesday, 11 May 2022

How can product management fit into an agency business model? Spoiler alert: _not easily_

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Whatever this is, this web3 product manager role is not a product manager

Whatever this is, this web3 product manager role is not a product manager

Posted on Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Jason Shah says that joining a web3 company can be “an opaque process and a risky decision”. I’d add “ethically challenging and morally grey” to that description.

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Sorting the signal from the noise — a guide to fact-checking

Sorting the signal from the noise — a guide to fact-checking

Posted on Wednesday, 16 March 2022

One of the most important, and arguably hardest jobs we have as product managers is to work with our team to sift through information, read between the lines, and verify what is fact and what is merely opinion.

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Q&A: What’s the difference between a growth hacker and a growth product manager?

Q&A: What’s the difference between a growth hacker and a growth product manager?

Posted on Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Hi Jock,
I was reading your article about growth product managers. What is the difference between ‘growth hacker’ and ‘growth product manager’?

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84: Start building a community of practice with the 3 minute challenge

84: Start building a community of practice with the 3 minute challenge

Posted on Wednesday, 23 February 2022

When you start out as a head of product, you’ll probably need to create a community of product people. In this article I share my advice to help you get the ball rolling with your own community of practice.

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Should a growth product manager even be a thing?

Should a growth product manager even be a thing?

Posted on Wednesday, 26 January 2022

There’s an ongoing debate about generalist product managers versus emerging product manager specialisms (such as ‘growth product manager’). I think there is room in our profession for both. Let me explain.

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6: 6 tips for presenting slides that don’t suck

6: 6 tips for presenting slides that don’t suck

Posted on Wednesday, 5 January 2022

All product managers will need to stand up and present to others at some point. You won’t be helping yourself (or your audience) if your slide deck is atrocious. So here are my 6 tips for presenting slides that don’t suck.

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Q&A: My boss wants to set me an OKR on revenue growth. Is this right?

Q&A: My boss wants to set me an OKR on revenue growth. Is this right?

Posted on Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Revenue growth is the ultimate vanity metric. It’s lagging and measures an output, not an outcome. That’s why it’s a terrible choice of OKR.

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83: 5 tips to ace your first impression at a new job

83: 5 tips to ace your first impression at a new job

Posted on Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Because so much of product management is about working with people, it’s important to take time to reflect on the kind of first impression you make to those people. In this latest entry for my series of 100 things I’ve learned about product management, I pass on my coaching advice to help you make the best possible impression every time.

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82: Replatforming the cash cow

82: Replatforming the cash cow

Posted on Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Engineering teams are choosing to work on projects that make them look busy, but which don’t actually move things forward. What they’re usually working on is a convoluted — and arguably doomed — attempt to replatform a legacy ‘cash cow’ product.

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