Product managers - First Round Review (Page 2)

Dear PMs, It's Time to Rethink Agile at Enterprise Startups

Flatiron Health's CMO and SVP Product Strategy Ogi Kavazovic explains how traditional PM practices break down at B2B companies, and what they can do instead.

Product

Why Chefs and Soldiers Make the Best Product Managers

Eaze CEO Jim Patterson has a theory that military and kitchen experience are solid indicators of great PMs. Here's why and what startups can look for to hire better.

Product

Amazon’s Friction-Killing Tactics To Make Products More Seamless

Amazon director Kintan Brahmbhatt, who's helped develop and refine the product strategy behind the Alexa and Amazon Music, explains the ways in which friction can live in your product, throwing roadblocks in a user's path to becoming a customer. He explains how to uncover counterintuitive insights t

Product

Cognitive Overhead is Your Product’s Overlord — Topple it With These Tips

Google Photos' Product Lead David Lieb cut his teeth on an app that allowed users to swap contact information by physically bumping phones. Drawing from Bump and other startups, Lieb shows how user adoption and virality can come from stripping cognitive overhead from products.

Product

What You Must Know To Build Savvy Push Notifications

With a few missteps, a push notification can transform from invitation to intrusion. Here, Noah Weiss, Slack's Head of Search, Learning and Intelligence, maps out the history and machinery behind push notifications — and the principles that can help startups use them well.

Product

The Power of the Elastic Product Team — Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own

Over the last 5 years, Jonathan Golden has watched Airbnb explode in size and productivity. Here's what that journey looked like on the product team that powered it.

Product

To Build Great Products, Build This Strong, Scalable System First

As Co-VPs of Product at Reddit, Alex Le and Kavin Stewart manage a large team with multiple competing goals. Here's what they've learned about building effective product pipelines.

Design

Here’s How Asana Won With Its Product Redesign

Redesigns are difficult and inevitable. Product manager Sam Goertler shares how Asana successfully executed its redesign with a unique, iterative approach.