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Dec 17, 2021

The APP Framework Follow-up: How did we do?

In my last article I featured a totally hot 🥵🔥, all-new PM framework, codenamed “APP” (Alignment, Prioritization, and Preservation). Since then, I have been reworking these concepts as I’ve observed the results. Honestly, to me, it never really felt like a framework at all, it’s just the way that I…

Product Management

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Product Management

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Dec 17, 2021

The Great Resignation in SaaS Product Management — How did I survive?

In September 2021 alone, the Department of Labor found that some 4.4 million workers, or 3% of the total workforce, quit their jobs… marking the highest number since the government started tracking the data. Behold, the Great Resignation! …

Product Management

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Product Management

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·Jun 29, 2021

The APP Framework in Product Management

I started my PM career at a 45-person startup. It was a very eye-opening experience for me. I’m sure most can relate — you wear a ton of different hats in a startup that small. I was doing everything related to integration development short of actually writing and deploying the…

Product Management

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The APP Framework in Product Management
The APP Framework in Product Management
Product Management

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·Mar 30, 2021

PM Chronicles, Vol. 1: Tough conversations & Emotional Intelligence

Early on in my career, I got yelled at by a developer I was working with. I was shook. He explained how frustrated he was with my lack of communication. I had tried so hard to be the PM that reads every book on the Amazon Best Sellers List for…

Product Management

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PM Chronicles, Vol. 1: Tough conversations & Emotional Intelligence
PM Chronicles, Vol. 1: Tough conversations & Emotional Intelligence
Product Management

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Weave Lab

·Jan 17, 2021

Good Strategy in Product Management

When I first started as a junior PM I was faced with a bunch of problems to solve with integrations at a business intelligence SaaS company. I turned to my senior colleagues to figure out how/where to start. While they didn’t solve my problems for me, they helped me to…

Strategy

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Good Strategy in Product Management
Good Strategy in Product Management
Strategy

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·Jan 17, 2021

How I Learned to Handle Customer Expectations in Product Management

Back when I first started my career, I worked in a pretty young client success organization. It was my job to make sure that customers were correctly onboarded with business intelligence software. It was my first job out of college — I was eager to prove myself; I wanted to…

Expectations

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How I Learned to Handle Customer Expectations in Product Management
How I Learned to Handle Customer Expectations in Product Management
Expectations

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·Jan 17, 2021

How a Web-Development Bootcamp Shot Me into the Product-Management Stratosphere

When I was first starting my career in product, I felt that I was eventually going to want to become a web developer. I knew that there was a path from my junior PM position into development; it had already been done before by another colleague who was now a…

Product Management

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How a Web-Development Bootcamp Shot Me into the Product-Management Stratosphere
How a Web-Development Bootcamp Shot Me into the Product-Management Stratosphere
Product Management

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·Jan 17, 2021

Shaping-driven Product Management

The shaping method leads the discovery phase by leveraging technical availability, data-driven decisions, and emotionally intelligent discussion. — If you break product management down to its core, you’ll find two sides to it: finding a problem to solve, and correctly solving said problem. If you accomplish this feat, you’re essentially a good product manager. The discovery phase of product management deals with identifying problems to solve and the…

Product Management

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Shaping-driven Product Management
Shaping-driven Product Management
Product Management

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·Nov 19, 2020

MS-DOS Games + SaaS Product Management: A Match Made in Heaven?

Let me start this off by saying that I am a nostalgia guy, especially for the early 90s computer games running on MS-DOS and much earlier versions of Windows. Remember those? The games that our older brothers/dads would never let us play for fear of us erasing their save file…

Product Management

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MS-DOS Games + SaaS Product Management: A Match Made in Heaven?
MS-DOS Games + SaaS Product Management: A Match Made in Heaven?
Product Management

19 min read

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Drew Hemsley

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Data-driven, SaaS Product Manager. Dunking on 'em since 1991!

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