How To Be A Good Product Manager is a blog that provides regular tips on good product management practices. While it focuses more on managing technical and online products, most of the concepts are appropriate for broader product management purposes.
The blog is written by me, Jeff Lash. I currently am in charge of product management at Sendouts.
The views and opinions expressed on this site are strictly mine and are not to be representative of Sendouts or any of my past employers.
In most cases, I come up with ideas for the postings based on a “good” product management experience, and then I try to think of the exact opposite approach that would be a “bad” thing to do. Other times they are based on examples, case studies, or others’ experiences. “Bad” examples should not be interpreted to be based on product managers I have worked with in the past or am working with currently. (Hopefully, though, they are not representative of product managers I will work with in the future!)
In addition to writing this blog, I also presented a popular webinar on Ten Tips For New Product Managers (2MB PPT slides). If you’re interested, you can learn more about other writing and presentations that I’ve done.
I welcome all comments and feedback — contact me!
What others are saying about How To Be A Good Product Manager
- Usability Counts (Patrick Neeman): “a phenomenal blog”
- Silicon Valley Product Group: “Recommended Reading for Product Managers and User Experience Professionals”
- Adam Bullied: “a great blog … that every PM should read regularly”
- Pluggd.in (Ashish Sinha): “[a blog] that every product manager should read”
- unraveled (Joshua Kaufman): “an excellent resource for product managers and just about anyone else on a product development/design team”
- brainmates: on a list of blogs “that stimulate, provoke and teach us about Product Management.”
- Experience Planner (Scott Weisbrod): “a fantastic new blog … Sharp, well-written, and insightful”
- Cauvin (Roger Cauvin): “a great read and off to a roaring start”
- Thinking and Making (Austin Govella): “a fantastic new blog … well-written lessons … The format’s great. … The lessons are straight-forward, but it’s nice to be reminded of things you should already know or might have forgotten.”
- Just a Gwai Lo (Richard Eriksson): “I spent the last couple of hours reading with interest the entire archives—yes, the entire archives”
- xblog (Bill Keaggy): “Awesome!”
- D. Keith Robinson: “Lots of good stuff in here.”
- Croc o’ Lyle (Lyle Kantrovich): “a great resource”
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