Product & Design 3 min read
Why product teams work best without a single leader
We had an offsite a couple of weeks ago where we reached a counterintuitive conclusion: product teams work best without…
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Product & Design 2 min read
Why the best meetings happen at the coffee dock
As a product manager, you usually have 20 things coming at you at once, and you’re constantly in a state…
Product & Design 30 min listen
Asana’s Jackie Bavaro on developing the role of product managers
Fast forward six years to 2017, and Asana is one of the fastest growing-collaboration software tools out there, citing more…
Product & Design 6 min read
Why messiness is a good thing for product teams
Here’s something I bet you experienced this week at work, probably most weeks at work: the feeling that things are…
Product & Design 4 min read
What energizes a product manager?
I had a call with a customer recently, who wanted to share their thoughts with our product team on what…
Product & Design 4 min read
6 weeks: why it’s the Goldilocks of product timeframes
Process for a product team can be suffocating, or process can be liberating. And no process at all? Well that’s…
Product & Design 7 min read
Q&A: How should product managers prioritize their time?
Time management is a constant struggle for any product manager. The biggest challenge is balancing two very different modes of…
Product & Design 4 min read
Behind the messenger: the right kind of disruption
Let’s face it, no one likes to be interrupted. But whether it’s on our phones, on websites, or even inside…
Product & Design 7 min read
Behind the messenger: making messaging human
The first wave of the internet was deeply impersonal. It enabled immediacy, scale, and access. But anonymity ruled – it…