Reasonable Product Pills: Short Product thoughts

Working in a favorable environment, with an inspiring boss, and on a challenging product, are probably the main ingredients to progress in your product management career. If you cannot count...

Has any salesperson (or CEO, …) told you “I know the customers’ needs very well because ONE customer told me that…” Why did this happen? There are many reasons, but...

Diving into an intriguing old McKinsey report on pricing ownership within organizations https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2016/06/unlocking-the-potential-of-pricing.pdf I couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at some “notable missing” pieces in the puzzle 😯 ....

Pricing is not based on cost… not on management’s gut feeling This post originally appeared on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jesperlhansson_bart-knows-activity-7050681190395105280-ux65

A Job-to-Be-Done is a clear statement describing what a group of people is aiming to achieve or resolve in a specific context. The word “job” does not refer to the...

I still see too many LinkedIn posts and so-called product frameworks telling what you can and cannot do in product organizations. In the years I’ve learned to be less dogmatic...

Is this an economic downturn? Or did we hire too much? When “Time to hire becomes the measure of success” companies kind of lose their North Star, get dazzled by...

Shall I get a product certification? Or a Product Management training/class? Which book do I have to read to become a good PM? 🤔 I get these questions every day,...

Is good Pricing necessarily about “making money”? Not really!And that’s where most Product Monetization exercises fail… lack of 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀! Many assume a product must “make money”, but this is...

I don’t believe that alignment is overrated but is absolutely true that alignment without understanding is counterproductive. You’d think you’re aligned, while in reality, everybody is pulling in a different...

👉 Dear Product team, if you don’t take the time to do #productdiscovery and talk with your customers regularly, somebody in the C-suite (or sales) will do it for you.And...

In the world of product management, there’s a lot of talk about titles. Product Owner (PO) or Product Manager (PM)? Senior or Junior? Lead… but leading what exactly?🤷‍♂️ I often...