The best weapon against the HiPPO
I think we all have been in the situation, where a decision was coming from up high – the Highest Paid Persons Opinion. The decision was made, that this new feature has to be developed now and the product manager and her team is expected to just follow suit. This of course contradicts all notion of an empowered product...
How to deal with sales (feedback)
“We need feature X!”, “We have lost an important deal to the competition, because we do not offer Y!“Every product manager, who is working with a sales team will know these or similar sentences. Product-led vs. Sales-led No product manager likes these comments and many in the product management / agile community...
Why I ditched my Mac
I’ve been a Mac user for the last 9 years. Don’t get me wrong, I love my MacBook and I bought a new one last month. This is one of the reasons why most people look at me with disbelieve, when I tell them that I’ll be working on a windows powered laptop from now on. Why the heck am I doing it? As mentioned before, I took on a new...
How I used OKR for 2018 without knowing the concept
In this post I'm going to share the way I planned the year 2018 and how I unintentionally used Objectives and Key Results.