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Product ops

  Managing products is not easy. Especially in a growing company. When you need to deliver value to your customers, plan strategically, onboard new colleagues, and do customer research - it could be overwhelming and often could lead to chaos. Hence the role of product ops emerged to take on those challenges and empower product teams.
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Product Marketing

  To make a successful product you not only need to build it, but also position it rightly on the market and convince your customers to try it. Luckily people exist who can help you do that - product marketers.

Don't "empower" your product team before they're ready

  Every product manager's career dream is to work on an empowered team. For most, it remains just that - the dream. Either their organisation cannot support this model or they try to act empowered before they are actually ready.

Product discovery playbook

  Every aspiring product team wants to do discovery, but still, shamefully few do. Why? Often people don't know where to start. Here's a quick guide to starting product discovery practice in your org.

Being right vs getting things right

  Is it really a product blog without a single quote from Steve Jobs? Relax there will be no quote from the man, but there will be a quote about him. And it just might explain the secret behind his extremely successful career.

Product decisions as doors

  One of the main responsibilities of a product manager is to make decisions. Some decisions will define their product success, but not all. What are different types of decisions and how should you approach them?

You can't predict, you can't prepare in product management

  Some have described product management as a process of de-risking investments. In a way, they are correct, a good product manager will make the chances of product failure lower and chances of success higher. However, just as in financial market investing, no one, not even the best product manager out there, can eliminate all risks.

Early days of product ops

  As I just finished my first year in a product ops role, I thought to share some reflections on this experience for anyone considering a product ops career going forward.