Simon Sinek said, “you can’t incentivize performance, you can only incentivize behavior.”

Elegantly put, I do believe this to be true.

You can reinforce behaviours through incentives. This may lead to positive outcomes — we hope that the right inputs lead to the right outputs, which hopefully lead to the…

Often I hear that roadmaps are part of your strategy layer. I’ve for many years struggled with this notion. Rather to me, they are a translation layer that sits between your strategy and your day to day work.

One google of the term ‘Product Strategy’ and you’ll find a dozen…

A question I get often is the difference between a Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager and a Growth PM.

Product Management can be confusing enough let alone trying to navigate the many different flavours.

However, understanding the nuances can be beneficial for those who might be more suited to these…

Note: Being a Product Person examples in this article are biased towards Product Teams however these techniques can be used for any roles 🙌

As part of my job, I’m fortunate enough to see and experience many different companies and teams. …

Are you considering making your roadmap public?

Or perhaps you constantly have customers asking about what’s coming up, where things are on the roadmap, etc.

Making your roadmap public might just be a perfect solution depending on your goals.

Many companies have made their roadmaps public and it is a…

*Note: this is a revised and updated version of a guest blog I did for Department of Product, titled: ‘Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product’ — check it out!

As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have coached dozens of Product Leaders and have walked in their shoes…

A recent survey conducted by Product Management Festival found that the number one reason why PMs leave their roles is because of a lack of opportunities to grow. Worse only 15.5% of respondents stated that developing people and capabilities was a top focus of their organization.

Couple this with 35%…

Last year I finally got around to taking John Zeratsky’s and Jake Knapp’s Design Sprint 1 day workshop. Prior to this much of what I’ve had learned about Design Sprints had been from reading their book and via osmosis from participating in Design Sprints.

Despite their popularity and the fact…