Feature Value = Unit Impact x Multipliers +/- Alternatives There are many ways to prioritize features. See this article for 7 ways to prioritize features including Kano, RICE, priority scorecard, etc. Here, I suggest a mechanism for PMs to rationale Feature Value, input into the overall prioritization process. Context: As…

Someone often says ‘I don’t trust my judgment.’ The judgment is actually not a problem, but the confidence. (An exchange with Angela Wise and the Twitter Women in Product Group) Being a PM out of school is hard. It’s hard to speak up and feel heard. The main thing that…

Ritual — Symbol — Belief A good team shares three things: ritual, symbol, and belief. These elements do not happen by chance, but by the intention and commitment of product leaders and team members. Rituals: actions or events performed by the group members that enforce their identity, support to each…

Article: https://www.lifescienceleader.com/doc/the-story-of-pfizer-s-r-d-turnaround-0001 Pfizer faced many challenges in 2009. Critics blamed Pfizer for its focus on acquisition instead of R&D to foster growth and the follower mentality. Fast forwards to 2021, we can all applaud Pfizer for its innovation on mRNA and its role in Covid vaccination. …

There is a new type of business model that all industries need to watch out for, the passion industry. Passion industry starts with creative, but it can be applied to a wide range of professions. In contrast with small/medium businesses — the passion industry focuses exclusively on micro-businesses, where an…

Outliers in this story refer to the ‘over-performed’ and ‘under-performed’ product managers in your team. You might think that they are quite different. It’s true, but there are several foundational leadership principles you can generalize. Prerequisites: Before managing outliers, you need to ask if you have these foundational structure in…

Situations: You lead a research team including researchers, but your company is not ready to invest in long-term research. You are PM’ing or EM’ing a team who develops technology X *which you believe will be important to the company in the long run, but you struggled to create short-term impacts…

What gets you promoted is not what you need to perform at your new level. If your team can’t start a meeting without you, it might NOT be a good sign. Set yourself up to do strategic work: Make spaces: Think about building a framework and processes so that your…

A Hinton’s work to mimic the biological design of human-detection system I have learned something new today — Here is an easier-to-understand doc about capsules: Why capsules? Capsules address a limitation of CNN and pooling. CNN extracts feature regardless of order**. Pooling discard information instead of ‘disentangling’ information. A normal human being…