Digital product management represents the convergence of creative and analytical disciplines. It combines leadership artistry, consensus-building, customer focus, and design thinking with technical problem-solving to create beautiful, logical, performant, and scalable solutions.
I have experience across diverse contexts: large and small organizations, Kanban and Scrum methodologies, enterprise and MVP software, with and without dedicated scrum masters.
My approach to product management rests on three foundational principles:
I demonstrate my practical methodology through key deliverables and ceremonies that support these priorities, presented in context with stakeholder and team counterparts.
I was asked once in a job interview what my favorite digital products were. I thought it was a great question and have asked it myself in subsequent interviews because it can prove insightful. So here's a list of applications that I use frequently and inspire me from a product perspective.
In my experience, good product managers are good writers. In this post I'll share an example feature specification that I wrote and discuss how it is used by various audiences.