Test-n-Tell.com - product management and operations

  Impact mapping is a versatile tool that should be in every PM's pocket. You can apply impact mapping to better communicate, collaborate and eventually reach better results for your product and organisation.

  Every dedicated product professional who has been lucky to work in a growing organisation will eventually need to choose: either to remain an individual contributor or move to manage people. This might be a tough choice for some. What if you're not sure what path is better for you?

  How could you simultaneously succeed and fail with your product? Unfortunately, this is easy and common. You can make a product that works for a few, but not for the many.

Making products successful is tough. It requires a lot of skill, even more hard work and a great dose of luck. Most importantly it requires everyone to work together and towards the same objective. This sounds obvious but people aspects, or culture, often become the reason your product fails.

  Earlier I wrote a post about how your job title doesn't matter for doing good product work. However, your job title does matter in different contexts - influence and responsibility.

  It doesn't matter if your job is product owner, or product manager, or product leader. Whether it's a business analyst, designer, or engineer. If you care about solving problems for your customers - you are a product person.

  This is a trivial reason for product failure, but also very common. You have finite resources to achieve product success. If you run out of them before you reach product success - you might not have a second chance.