There is a question I hear a lot from my family and friends that do not work in IT: What do you do exactly? Looking back at the many times my mom asked me this questions, for example, I need to say that I believe she has not a clue about what I work with….
A Product Manager has the responsibility to build up products, to make them a success. In software development, “management” roles are trying to evolve for years in a magic formula that will make products more successful, with less risks and improved precision on estimations. I myself have worked as project manager, product owner and product…
It’s common to see a clear line dividing business and IT at companies. I think I saw it in almost all the places I worked. There are IT people and the rest of the company. IT department is usually well distinguished from others, and I see so many problems emerging from that. And the hardest…
In my years of experience I have been learning about a bunch of methodologies, processes, frameworks, concepts, and so on. While applying something we learned, we can face the advantages and disadvantages of it, and we can also see that some technics work for some situations but can be terrible for others. Therefore, I have…
Communication is an essential skill for a Product Manager. We need to be able to simplify the business language once we are communicating with developers, we need to transform the technical important aspect of a product into a business language and we also need to clearly report all aspects of the product for the high…
Agile and Lean methodologies are widely used nowadays in software development and, when we use this kind of methodology, knowing how to change a big and complex problem into small problems is a fundamental skill. Only with small problems, it will be possible to create the many small frequent versions of a product and keep…
I can’t remember a single project I worked on that we had enough time to implement extra nice features and all stakeholders’ ideas. It was always a hard decision between what to pick up and what to put in the long waitlist. Because of that, knowing how to say no to people in a proper…
