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PRODUCTHEAD: “It was at that moment he knew …”

PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.

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Be comfortable not having all the answers; trust your team

Prioritise the customer when balancing B2C/B2B decisions

Counteract your cognitive bias towards adding complexity by subtracting

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There is one kind of problem that I’m never worried about ha...

PRODUCTHEAD: Pragmatism versus idealism

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There’s a balance between motivating people to a goal and killing their enthusiasm with the gory detail

Just as with users and customers, we need to meet our peers where they are

In most complex organisations, product supports the organisation’s goals, not vice ve...

Cloud computing for non-technical product managers

This explainer article is an experiment for me. If you consider yourself to be a non-technical product manager, I would love to know in the comments below whether this article has been helpful and pitched at the right level for you.

To understand how cloud computing works, we’re going to start with the basic building blocks and work our way up.

In this articleIntroductionMain bits of a computerRunning software on serversClustering serversAutomation and orchestrati...

PRODUCTHEAD: Attitudes to technical literacy

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curated by Jock Busuttil.

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Choosing not to learn is a choice to be left behind

4 types of “money story”: cost savings; upselling; new market; and customer satisfaction

Reflections on how we think about aspects of product management

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This week I’ve been thinking about a challenge...

PRODUCTHEAD: The pendulum swings back to business impact

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What product work will deliver the greatest positive impact for the business?

Rather than multiple levels of abstraction, team goals should be 1 step away from the corporate goal

Enabling teams can have impact by prioritising the teams doing the most impactful w...

PRODUCTHEAD: Not bricking it – retiring a product with good grace

PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.

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Just over half of product managers surveyed rate themselves poor at retiring a product

Consider how people may continue using your product after it is retired, or the company exits

Activists are pushing to prevent companies from bricking devices reliant on c...

PRODUCTHEAD: Not bricking it — retiring a product with good grace

PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.

Subscribe to PRODUCTHEADexit music (for a product)

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tl;dr

Just over half of product managers surveyed rate themselves poor at retiring a product

Consider how people may continue using your product after it is retired, or the company exits

Activists are pushing to prevent companies from bricking devices reliant on c...

PRODUCTHEAD: Exponential growth is a myth

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curated by Jock Busuttil.

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So-called hypergrowth is quadratic, not exponential (adding a larger fixed amount each year — not multiplying)

Sustainable growth requires new products or built-in virality, not just more marketing

True exponential growth is...

PRODUCTHEAD: Is your subscription really a rental?

PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.

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10 tactics for subscription value creation

10 tactics for reducing subscription churn

When switching to a subscription model, initially costs will go up and revenue will decrease

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If there’s a trend for technology companies that doesn’t explici...

PRODUCTHEAD: People problems and solutions

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A prototype expresses a product concept far better and quicker than a product requirements document (PRD)

People good at doing a thing themselves are not always good at building a system to do it

Work is craft: theoretical knowledge and practical experien...