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Even considering both is insufficient.", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/problems-with-outcomes-over-outputs/", "published_at": "2020-10-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cdbdc3119", "title": "Build It, And They Won't Come – Why your product needs a growth loop to succeed", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/user-acquisition-and-growth-loops/", "published_at": "2020-09-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cdbb25e3e", "title": "The Uncertainty Axiom of Product Management – Most of your ideas won't work—and that's okay", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/the-uncertainty-of-product-development/", "published_at": "2020-09-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cdada1f94", "title": "Lead & Learn: Two Skills of Successful PMs – Own the team direction but be willing to course-correct", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/pms-must-be-able-to-lead-and-to-learn/", "published_at": "2020-08-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd9df1e40", "title": "Kill Your Product Backlog – Why you should stop hoarding product improvement ideas", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/your-product-backlog-must-die/", "published_at": "2020-08-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd9258bdc", "title": "Bring Me Problems, Not Solutions – Counterintuitive advice for product development", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/product-leaders-need-to-ask-for-problems/", "published_at": "2020-07-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd88abcd7", "title": "Setting up Product Development Processes – How product leaders can help their organization effectively execute", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/processes-for-product-organizations/", "published_at": "2020-07-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd7b85189", "title": "The Iteration Imperative – Why digital products should be created iteratively", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/digital-product-management-needs-iterative-discovery/", "published_at": "2020-06-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd78595c7", "title": "‪The Startup Mindset: Stubbornness and Flexibility – What it takes to create a product from scratch", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/startup-mindset-stubbornness-flexibility/", "published_at": "2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd6acc4aa", "title": "Establishing a Product Organization Structure – Product teams and functional leadership", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/establishing-a-product-org-structure/", "published_at": "2020-05-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd5e588df", "title": "You Can't A/B Test Your Way to Greatness – A/B testing is an awesome tool, but has severe limitations", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/ab-testing-does-not-create-great-products/", "published_at": "2020-05-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd5d8ff65", "title": "Developing the Team as a Product Leader – Growing your people to build the highest performing team", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/developing-the-team/", "published_at": "2020-05-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd5335665", "title": "How B2B and B2C Product Management Differ – Some observations from the front lines", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/pm-business-and-consumer/", "published_at": "2020-04-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd50b706b", "title": "The Challenge With Thinking From First Principles – True first principle or erroneous assumption?", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/the-problem-of-first-principles-thinking/", "published_at": "2020-03-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd467c5c1", "title": "Hiring the Team as a Product Leader – Achieve leverage through hiring the right people", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/hiring-a-product-team/", "published_at": "2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd3ec09d2", "title": "PM 101: Minimum Viable Product (MVP) – It's a product! It's viable! It's minimum! Or is it?", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/what-is-a-minimum-viable-product/", "published_at": "2020-03-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd37a01bd", "title": "Owning the Product Direction as a Product Leader – From vision to roadmap, from 1:1 feedback to evangelism", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/owning-the-product-direction/", "published_at": "2020-02-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd2f6a0f1", "title": "The Three Responsibilities of Product Leadership – What the heck does a product leader do, anyway?", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/the-three-responsibilities-of-product-leaders/", "published_at": "2020-01-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd2a3ed90", "title": "Rich Link Previews in Eleventy – Generating attractive link previews with Eleventy and Nunjucks", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/technology/rich-link-previews-in-eleventy-and-nunjucks/", "published_at": "2019-12-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd1e10f74", "title": "Helpful Communication Frameworks for PMs – Improving the most important skill for product managers", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/communication-frameworks-for-product-managers/", "published_at": "2019-12-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd17c63bd", "title": "Writing Your CV to Get Hired in a Product Role – Reflections of a hiring manager", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/crafting-cv-for-product-roles/", "published_at": "2019-11-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd0dedd88", "title": "Seven Non-Negotiable PM Skills – These skills may be soft, but they're indispensable for product managers", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/non-negotiable-soft-skills/", "published_at": "2019-10-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cd07512f9", "title": "Product Management from First Principles – Basic propositions to base your product thinking on", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/first-principles-thinking/", "published_at": "2019-09-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49ccfc51111", "title": "The Problem with Prioritization Frameworks – Why prioritization frameworks have little value for empowered product teams", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/why-prioritization-frameworks-dont-work/", "published_at": "2019-09-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cceef369e", "title": "PM 101: Working With Product Designers – Double diamond vs. design squiggle", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/working-with-product-designers/", "published_at": "2019-08-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cce1e2102", "title": "PM 101: Pitfalls of A/B Testing – A/B testing is a powerful tool—if used correctly", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/eight-ab-testing-pitfalls/", "published_at": "2019-06-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49ccdbfefc1", "title": "The A/B Testing Trap – “We A/B test everything”? You shouldn't.", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/ab-testing-everything-is-a-trap/", "published_at": "2019-05-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49ccda069ed", "title": "PM 101: Define the Problem Before the Solution – The key to improving team alignment and building the right features", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/define-problem-before-solution/", "published_at": "2019-05-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49ccccaa19f", "title": "Google & Apple—A Tale of Two Product Cultures – Data-driven engineering approach vs. intuition-driven liberal arts approach", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/apple-google-product-cultures/", "published_at": "2019-05-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49ccc68782d", "title": "Should Your Product Have a North Star Metric? – One metric to rule them all?", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/risks-of-north-star-metrics/", "published_at": "2019-04-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49ccba33e7e", "title": "How Do You Create a Product Roadmap? – Moving away from a GANTT chart of features and dates", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/creating-product-roadmaps/", "published_at": "2019-04-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49ccad89ff5", "title": "Outcomes Over Outputs: The Long-Term Challenge – When you can't immediately measure everything you'd like to improve", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/outcomes-over-outputs-long-term/", "published_at": "2019-04-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d9-7397-a4f5-a49cca64045c", "title": "Most Product Improvement Attempts Fail – What should product organizations do about that?", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/most-product-improvement-fails/", "published_at": "2019-03-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d97643a916c", "title": "Product Vision, Strategy, Roadmap – We keep using these words, but what do they mean?", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-leadership/product-vision-strategy-roadmap/", "published_at": "2019-02-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d9763b8ee30", "title": "Why PMs Need Qualitative Research – What A/B testing won’t be able to tell you, but talking to your customers will", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/product-managers-need-qualitative-research/", "published_at": "2017-05-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d9762bd6e09", "title": "Can a Consultant Learn to Execute as a PM? – From Consulting Into Product Management, Part 2", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/consulting-to-product-management-2/", "published_at": "2017-02-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d976280b502", "title": "Can a Consultant Learn to Become a PM? – From Consulting Into Product Management, Part 1", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/consulting-to-product-management-1/", "published_at": "2017-02-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d97626c31ea", "title": "5½ Lessons From One Year as a Yammer PM – What I learned about product management and more", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/lessons-from-one-year-at-yammer/", "published_at": "2017-01-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d976205a64a", "title": "25 Great Product Management Articles From 2016 – A year of PM reading, digested", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/best-pm-articles-2016/", "published_at": "2016-12-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d97612ec9d6", "title": "To Spec or not to Spec – Should you write a product spec for your product?", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/to-spec-or-not-to-spec/", "published_at": "2016-10-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d97603ff6fe", "title": "Datensparsamkeit—Being Stingy With Data – The German approach to privacy in technology", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/technology/datensparsamkeit-german-privacy/", "published_at": "2016-10-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d975fd0f2fb", "title": "Two Frameworks to Improve Your Product – Growth-Stickiness-Monetization and HEART", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/two-product-improvement-frameworks/", "published_at": "2016-09-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d975f95165d", "title": "Apple is Removing the Headphone Jack – I don't like the decision, here is why I still admire it", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/technology/apple-headphone-jack/", "published_at": "2016-06-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878c-61d8-7004-8cc6-4d975ed3a655", "title": "Product Teardowns at Yammer – Why we talk about a different product for an hour every Friday", "url": "https://www.jefago.com/product-management/product-teardowns-at-yammer/", "published_at": "2016-03-31T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

Year 5 as RevenueCat Head of Product – Takeaways and lessons learnedoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2025
Inside the product management org at RevenueCat – A peek under the hood of our PM org (we’re hiring!)original ↗
10 Dec 2025
Customer Obsession – One of our values at RevenueCat, and key for every PMoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2025
Year 4 as RevenueCat Head of Product – Takeaways and lessons learnedoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2025

2024

Metrics & Analytics: Crucial Product Management Skill 10/20 – How to measure the success of your productoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2024
Customer Discovery: Crucial Product Management Skill 9/20 – Getting better at understanding your customer and their needsoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2024
Product & UX: Crucial Product Management Skill 8/20 – How to develop product and UX senseoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2024
My Personal Approach to Balance – My changing thoughts on work/life balanceoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2024
PM Hiring Practices – Recent changes to my hiring processoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2024
Business: Crucial Product Management Skill 7/20 – Understand and represent business considerations in product decisionsoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2024
The End of Software? – Musings on today’s takeoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2024
Year 3 as RevenueCat Head of Product – Takeaways and lessons learnedoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2024

2023

Managing Up as a Product Manager – How to manage your manageroriginal ↗
22 Oct 2023
Getting Things Done as a Product Manager – How to stay on top of your to-do listoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2023
Product Manager Take Home Assignment Examples – Some product management interview homework assignments I've come acrossoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2023
Why You Should Send a Weekly Summary Email – A deceptively simple productivity and management tooloriginal ↗
5 Feb 2023
My Product Leadership Reflections on 2022 – Some things I learned last yearoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2023

2022

I Interviewed ChatGPT for a PM role, and it almost got the job – How to detect the AI's confident but shallow answersoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2022
Managing Work in Progress as a Product Manager – Speed up by increasing focusoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2022
Remote and Asynchronous Product Management – How to thrive as a PM when working from anywhereoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2022
Reducing Bias as a Product Manager – Thinking, Fast and Sloworiginal ↗
29 Jun 2022
Why product managers should not be data driven – Don’t get hit by Goodhart’s Laworiginal ↗
29 May 2022
Interviewing Product Managers for Product Sense – Evaluating “hard” product skillsoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2022
Take-home assignments for product management candidates – The pros and cons of requiring written homeworkoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2022
Defining teams for a product development organization – Four interesting ideas about product org designoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2022
Technology: Crucial Product Management Skill 6/20 – Don't attempt to be an engineer, but work with them effectivelyoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2022
Take-home assignments are not free work – Don't worry, companies won't just steal your responsesoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2022

2021

What science fiction taught me about product management – And here I was thinking I was reading for funoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2021
Customer & Industry: Crucial Product Management Skill 5/20 – Knowing your customer and industry, inside outoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2021
High Agency: Crucial Product Management Skill 4/20 – If at first you don't succeed, ...original ↗
21 Nov 2021
The Crucial Ingredient For Better Meetings – Five minutes of meeting preparation to save countless hoursoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2021
Ownership: Crucial Product Management Skill 3/20 – Think like an owner, act like an owneroriginal ↗
7 Nov 2021
Empathy: Crucial Product Management Skill 2/20 – A product manager's superpoweroriginal ↗
31 Oct 2021
Communication: Crucial Product Management Skill 1/20 – Why communication is the most foundational product management skilloriginal ↗
24 Oct 2021
Twenty Crucial Product Management Skills – Where great product managers excel—a comprehensive listoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2021
What is a Product Vision? – Often mentioned, rarely understoodoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2021
Product management strength and form – Mastering the two different types of product development workoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2021
Seven Great Books for Product Managers – Deepen your product management skills with these fantastic readsoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2021
PM 101: Working with Engineers – How to collaborate effectively with technical team membersoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2021
Product Management is Risk Management – It sounds strange, but only at first glanceoriginal ↗
16 May 2021
A Reading List for Aspiring Product Managers – Looking to break into product management? Here are some pointersoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2021
Do Product Managers Need to Be Technical? – “It depends”, of course, but here's what it depends onoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2021
How Do You Prioritize What To Build? – You don't need a product prioritization framework, but a pyramidoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2021
Seven Product Management Principles – How to improve your product management and leadership practicesoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2021

2020

25 Product Management Lessons – Some things I've learned along the wayoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2020
One exercise to improve at product job interviews – Building your product muscle, one hour at a timeoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2020
Looking for Best Practices? Try Best Principles. – Why implementing hyped frameworks won't get you faroriginal ↗
29 Nov 2020
The Case for Empowered Product Teams – Why you should let your teams figure out what to buildoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2020
You are not Focusing Enough – Delivering as many good ideas as possible doesn't create great productsoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2020
The Discomfort of a Great Product Team – Why teams without conflicts don't tend to produce great productsoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2020
Why “Outcomes Over Outputs” is Flawed Advice – Outputs? Outcomes? Even considering both is insufficient.original ↗
4 Oct 2020
Build It, And They Won't Come – Why your product needs a growth loop to succeedoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2020
The Uncertainty Axiom of Product Management – Most of your ideas won't work—and that's okayoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2020
Lead & Learn: Two Skills of Successful PMs – Own the team direction but be willing to course-correctoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2020
Kill Your Product Backlog – Why you should stop hoarding product improvement ideasoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2020
Bring Me Problems, Not Solutions – Counterintuitive advice for product developmentoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2020
Setting up Product Development Processes – How product leaders can help their organization effectively executeoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2020
The Iteration Imperative – Why digital products should be created iterativelyoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2020
‪The Startup Mindset: Stubbornness and Flexibility – What it takes to create a product from scratchoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020
Establishing a Product Organization Structure – Product teams and functional leadershiporiginal ↗
24 May 2020
You Can't A/B Test Your Way to Greatness – A/B testing is an awesome tool, but has severe limitationsoriginal ↗
10 May 2020
Developing the Team as a Product Leader – Growing your people to build the highest performing teamoriginal ↗
1 May 2020
How B2B and B2C Product Management Differ – Some observations from the front linesoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2020
The Challenge With Thinking From First Principles – True first principle or erroneous assumption?original ↗
29 Mar 2020
Hiring the Team as a Product Leader – Achieve leverage through hiring the right peopleoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2020
PM 101: Minimum Viable Product (MVP) – It's a product! It's viable! It's minimum! Or is it?original ↗
1 Mar 2020
Owning the Product Direction as a Product Leader – From vision to roadmap, from 1:1 feedback to evangelismoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2020
The Three Responsibilities of Product Leadership – What the heck does a product leader do, anyway?original ↗
26 Jan 2020

2019

Rich Link Previews in Eleventy – Generating attractive link previews with Eleventy and Nunjucksoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2019
Helpful Communication Frameworks for PMs – Improving the most important skill for product managersoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2019
Writing Your CV to Get Hired in a Product Role – Reflections of a hiring manageroriginal ↗
30 Nov 2019
Seven Non-Negotiable PM Skills – These skills may be soft, but they're indispensable for product managersoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2019
Product Management from First Principles – Basic propositions to base your product thinking onoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2019
The Problem with Prioritization Frameworks – Why prioritization frameworks have little value for empowered product teamsoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2019
PM 101: Working With Product Designers – Double diamond vs. design squiggleoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2019
PM 101: Pitfalls of A/B Testing – A/B testing is a powerful tool—if used correctlyoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2019
The A/B Testing Trap – “We A/B test everything”? You shouldn't.original ↗
26 May 2019
PM 101: Define the Problem Before the Solution – The key to improving team alignment and building the right featuresoriginal ↗
12 May 2019
Google & Apple—A Tale of Two Product Cultures – Data-driven engineering approach vs. intuition-driven liberal arts approachoriginal ↗
5 May 2019
Should Your Product Have a North Star Metric? – One metric to rule them all?original ↗
28 Apr 2019
How Do You Create a Product Roadmap? – Moving away from a GANTT chart of features and datesoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2019
Outcomes Over Outputs: The Long-Term Challenge – When you can't immediately measure everything you'd like to improveoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2019
Most Product Improvement Attempts Fail – What should product organizations do about that?original ↗
2 Mar 2019
Product Vision, Strategy, Roadmap – We keep using these words, but what do they mean?original ↗
13 Feb 2019

2017

Why PMs Need Qualitative Research – What A/B testing won’t be able to tell you, but talking to your customers willoriginal ↗
26 May 2017
Can a Consultant Learn to Execute as a PM? – From Consulting Into Product Management, Part 2original ↗
13 Feb 2017
Can a Consultant Learn to Become a PM? – From Consulting Into Product Management, Part 1original ↗
9 Feb 2017
5½ Lessons From One Year as a Yammer PM – What I learned about product management and moreoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2017

2016

25 Great Product Management Articles From 2016 – A year of PM reading, digestedoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2016
To Spec or not to Spec – Should you write a product spec for your product?original ↗
26 Oct 2016
Datensparsamkeit—Being Stingy With Data – The German approach to privacy in technologyoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2016
Two Frameworks to Improve Your Product – Growth-Stickiness-Monetization and HEARToriginal ↗
25 Sept 2016
Apple is Removing the Headphone Jack – I don't like the decision, here is why I still admire itoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2016
Product Teardowns at Yammer – Why we talk about a different product for an hour every Fridayoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2016