Product Development

Common performance bottlenecks that can affect the user experience include slow loading times, high server response times, inefficient database queries, and excessive network requests....

Over the last 25 years, I’ve had the opportunity to lead and advise companies on their planning processes. And I've seen many common challenges and patterns of success. I have simplified them into 10 key insights right here....

Finding the right roadmap can be tricky as it depends on your product, your team, and who is going to be viewing your roadmap. To simplify things here’s some guidance on how to select the right product roadmap for your team....

You need to strike a careful balance between taking risks to innovate and create new opportunities while also managing potential downsides. The key is understanding your customers deeply so you can identify opportunities and risks and create new products that would truly benefit them....

Coordinating cross-functional teams, such as engineering, UX/UI design, marketing, and sales, with compliance in mind requires extra effort from product managers....

A good problem statement concisely defines the key user needs and obstacles to address, without assuming specific solutions upfront. This focuses the team on the right challenges to solve versus just pushing features....

At the core of data democracy lies the promise of informed decision-making. By granting relevant stakeholders access to actionable data, organizations empower their employees to make well-informed choices....

Fintech product development is closely linked to compliance that differs from region to region and even within one country (e.g., different states in the USA). It is simply not possible to launch a product that is not compliant with all required regulations....

Running an A/B test is crucial for most product managers dealing with digital products that have a reasonable-sized audience. It is essential to research users and measure the changes we are making to our product as our views on the product may be biased....

If you don't have a product team that has stormed and formed and armed and then experienced some growing pains as the team and company scale, then the time is too early to start a product operations team, in my opinion....

There's a core set of skills that product operations roles can be measured by. These skills can be an effective way to evaluate candidates when hiring for product operations. Let's go through the framework for this......

When a product manager has direct access to the development team, they can grasp the nuances of technical challenges and potentials. When they engage directly with customers, they’re privy to insights that might not emerge in distilled reports or second-hand accounts....

Internal products are the company’s products, too. Internal product management helps different business departments, such as sales, finance, client success, operations, etc., to meet their specific needs....

An MVP's goal is to produce a condensed version of a product with just enough features to sate early users and collect insightful feedback....

Ethical considerations in product development go beyond legal compliance and profitability; they encompass the moral responsibility of product teams to prioritize the well-being and rights of their users....