Articles tagged ‘product’
The 3 phases of public API development
unpacking the API product lifecycle • 2024-11-12
Indigestible restaurant concepts
consumer food-service enshittification • 2024-08-13
The fridge door test for web accessibility
minimum-effort signals in complex systems • 2024-08-06
Stop talking about requirements
Zombies, and the requirements analysis delusion • 2024-07-23
Book review: Who Does What By How Much?
A broadly-applicable guide to adopting OKRs • 2024-07-16
Refactoring checklist
Ten practical tips for reducing technical debt • 2024-07-02
Extreme product development (script)
The extended script for my Joy of Coding lightning talk • 2024-06-25
Stop talking about ‘technical debt’
Prioritise and work towards specific goals instead • 2024-06-18
Development schedule cost
I don’t ask for developer estimates and nor should you • 2024-06-04
Legacy product development (part 2)
The converse of extreme product development • 2024-05-27
Legacy product development (part 1)
The converse of extreme product development • 2024-05-21
Don’t conflate difficulty with effort
How to have better conversations with developers • 2024-05-07
Zero-bug policy scenarios
How to handle common situations • 2024-04-23
Being a product manager with a technical background
Unexpected benefits of a previous life as a developer • 2024-04-16
Book review: Radical Focus
Objectives and key results as both fiction and framework, by Christina Wodtke • 2024-04-09
ProductTank Rotterdam manifesto
Our vision for a local product management community • 2024-03-26
Use better product management jargon
Overthinking language because words matter • 2024-03-05
Linear teams and projects
Bridging project management tools and product management • 2024-02-20
Date-based information architecture
How Tana daily pages use ‘today’ as a sensible default • 2024-02-13
Integrated Q&A in product documentation
Docs, questions and answers in Delibr and Slite • 2024-02-06
Product documentation-capability alignment
Fun with product capabilities and Venn diagrams • 2024-01-30
Extreme product development
New approaches, yet to become mainstream • 2024-01-23
‘Feature’ is a construct
Why features would make product development easier, but don’t exist • 2024-01-16
Slite template placeholders
When good design looks obvious • 2024-01-09
QA collaboration for product managers
Software quality from a broader product perspective • 2023-12-26
Open product discovery
Redefining continuous discovery for product managers with NEXT • 2023-12-12
Feature roadmap transformation
How to migrate to a now/next/later product roadmap, one step at a time • 2023-12-05
Product feature analytics
Integrating a functional model with feature-level analytics • 2023-11-28
Product feature trackers
Product operations’ missing tooling • 2023-11-21
Feature rollout
Feature lifecycle steps that follow release • 2023-11-14
Feature release
Feature lifecycle steps that precede release • 2023-11-07
Feature lifecycle management
How existing product development tools neglect features • 2023-10-31
The backlog abstraction layer
A developer perspective on taming infinite backlogs • 2023-10-24
The incredible shrinking backlog
Why you don’t need such a big backlog • 2023-10-17
B2B SaaS review: Airfocus
Flexible end-to-end product management • 2023-10-10
The infinite backlog problem
Software development teams’ self-excavated pit • 2023-10-03
Product document naming
Overthinking what we call the artefacts we write • 2023-09-19
Books that introduce product management
What to read if you only read one book (first) • 2023-09-12
B2B SaaS review: Orbit
Simplified full-circle product management • 2023-08-22
B2B SaaS review: Kitemaker
Integrated product management instead of better project management • 2023-08-15
Legacy software in seven years
Why no-code automation keeps getting better • 2023-07-04
The word-processor problem
Software focus in niche markets versus mass-market complication • 2023-06-20
Team collaboration commoditisation
No-code automation platform Next Matter’s built-in feedback and tasks • 2023-05-30
No-code workflow commoditisation
Built-in custom workflow capabilities in B2B SaaS • 2023-05-16
Project-free product development
You don’t hate Jira, you hate project management • 2023-04-25
Universal product development tools
Simpler more accessible tools to manage product development • 2023-04-18
B2B SaaS review: Cycle
A first look at a tool for integrated product discovery • 2023-04-11
Product development productivity tools
Tooling for different product development units of work • 2023-04-04
Simplify development work organisation
Reducing chaos by consolidating different levels of units of work • 2023-03-28
Simplify product work organisation
Reducing chaos by consolidating different levels of units of work • 2023-03-21
B2B SaaS review: Collato
A first look at a simpler way to collaborate on documents • 2023-03-14
B2B SaaS review: Delibr
From a single unit of work to end-to-end product development • 2023-02-28
Units of work
Overthinking product development team task lists • 2023-02-21
Software development takes forever
The first fundamental software development problem • 2023-02-14
The two-minute product manager
Hyper-availability and reducing median time to respond • 2023-02-07
Product management arithmetic
Why weighted prioritisation scores don’t add up • 2023-01-31
5 ways singing early music makes you better at working in tech
Yet another inane comparison you don’t need and don’t care about • 2022-11-29
Identify workarounds in bug reports
Bug reports for knowledge-centred over achievers • 2022-11-15
Identify context and environment in bug reports
Why bug reports get rejected because ‘it works on my machine’ • 2022-11-08
List reproduction steps in bug reports
How to make bugs reproducible so they get fixed • 2022-11-01
Describe expected behaviour in bug reports
Comparing notes on software behaviour expectations • 2022-10-25
Minimum viable bug report
The most important bug report information… to start with • 2022-10-18
Calendar event rejections
Status codes for more expressive meeting request rejections • 2022-10-04
The part-time product manager
When product management gets the day off • 2022-08-16
How to talk to developers
Boring meetings and balanced conversations • 2022-03-15
Reduce scope at different scales
Why software development requires reducing scope at every step • 2022-03-01
Continuously reduce scope
Why product development requires repeated scope reduction • 2022-02-22
Book review: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile
A practical guide for agile software development practitioners, by @allankellynet • 2021-02-09
HTTP API documentation mistakes
Five common ways to get stuck writing the docs • 2021-01-19
Deconstructed HTTP API documentation
The conventional way to write hard-to-use API documentation • 2021-01-07
Implement a zero-bug policy
How to manage bugs during software product development • 2021-01-05
Development environment documentation
Essential software product documentation for the development team • 2020-12-08
Why developers write bad API documentation
Coding habits that hinder technical writing • 2020-11-24
The API documentation usability problem
Why API documentation tends towards a poor developer experience • 2020-11-10
Book review: Epic Alignment
How to write structured feature documents • 2020-10-13
Software’s process value
Why special-purpose software offers more than its functionality • 2020-08-25
B2B SaaS review: Shipright
A single source of truth for your customers’ product feedback • 2020-07-01
Time zone compromises
Winning against time zones in software by not actually fighting • 2020-06-03
B2B SaaS review: Delibr
Structured writing for feature documents • 2020-05-19
Product backlog naming tips
How to name things, for product people • 2020-05-12
Naming products isn’t the problem
Why product backlog item naming matters • 2020-05-05
The product roadmap triangle
How to make trade-offs between roadmap qualities • 2020-04-28
Roadmaps in two dimensions and three levels
How to relate your roadmap to what matters • 2020-04-21
Your product roadmap is a compromise
Finding a balance between flexibility and transparency • 2020-04-14
B2B SaaS review: productboard (roadmaps)
Sharing product roadmaps in @productboard • 2020-04-07
B2B SaaS review: productboard (insights board)
Capturing customer feedback in @productboard • 2020-03-31
B2B SaaS review: productboard (features board)
Managing a product backlog in @productboard • 2020-03-25
Book review: Choose Your First Product
How to find and validate a product idea, by Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek) • 2020-03-18
Book review: The Art of Agile Product Ownership
How to understand the best way to fulfil the PO role, by @allankellynet • 2020-03-12
Visit your customers and ask them questions
How to get them talking about your product’s value proposition • 2020-02-11
Identify your product value proposition
Why people will buy your product • 2020-01-29
Deliver a 3-5 point product-pitch
How to build initial product marketing from a product definition • 2020-01-21
Define your product using existing product categories
How categories clarify your product definition • 2020-01-15
Write a three-part product definition
How to set the context for your product story • 2020-01-08
Articulate the minimal product definition
How to set the context for your product in one sentence • 2020-01-02
Software maintenance’s terrible question
The big question that teams don’t ask about software products • 2018-07-09
User modelling with TV character personas
Better-looking software requirements analysis • 2014-07-31
What is a collaboration platform?
Collaboration is a tag - not a category • 2014-07-23