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My current experience as a micro entrepreneur is a great example of why I cannot do product management alone.For a product to do its job well, it requires understanding of the right audience, and to come to life through real interactions that validate its value with said audience (1).For it to reach the right audience... Continue Reading →
Impact is the real measure of success for a product team, but to keep us fueled along the race, we need to remember to celebrate the milestones that guide us along that uncertain path towards impact. 🏁 One of the milestones during this hectic time of the year is creating a roadmap that aligns all... Continue Reading →
In a previous post I talked about curiosity as a skill looked for in product management. In this one, I continue and wrap up the topic by commenting my observations on how we assess it and what to consider when doing so. So how do we assess curiosity? I easily came across many ways how... Continue Reading →
When I was a hiring manager, I spent a lot of time defining the critical skills I looked for in a product manager, and trying out ways to assess them in a fair, yet effective way. As a job seeker, I now look at ads trying to make sense of the questions or requirements they... Continue Reading →
This month I am celebrating my sixth anniversary at Pipedrive. I never imagined I'd be in the same company for that long. Let me share here with you some of the anecdotes and lessons learned during this time.
It is the third of my 10-week mini sabbatical and it’s also Friday, which mean it’s blogging day. Returning from Seoul and jumping into a workshop on a topic related to work is a huge shift of mindset. From an identity perspective, one mindset is messy, adventurous, social and hedonistic. Seoul was mostly about that,... Continue Reading →
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide by Leah Buley My rating: 4 of 5 stars I started reading this book when we were a small team of product managers and product designers in the job. Often finding myself stuck in how to go on about a problem, and seeing... Continue Reading →
Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company uses its own product to test and promote the product.[1] I started actively thinking about how I ate my own dog food as a product manager when I started listening to the podcast This... Continue Reading →
I spent last Friday at Refresh, a conference for Product, Design and Front End people that takes place every year in Tallinn since 2015. I don't go to conferences often, but when I do I like to come back with the feeling that I learned something new and that I interacted with fine, like-minded people.... Continue Reading →
Before running a design sprint (December 4, 2018) Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp In January 2018 I will be taking part in a Design Sprint, and I've been reading the book to dig into the details. Only then I will feel I have... Continue Reading →
Maria Lasprilla 