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“Hey Product Manager, go do strategy!” – 7 Steps to a Great Product Strategy
“Make a product strategy.” may sound like a battle cry, but it’s an essential aspect of a product manager’s daily routine – or at least it should be. This is where the wheat is separated from the chaff…
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Fail Fast: Failing Better – 3 Steps to a Learning Organization
Everyone talks about learning, but few talk about failure – even though they go hand in hand. At mobile.de, the “Fail Fast” format (originally inspired by Fuckup Nights) created a safe space to openly share and reflect on failures. The goal: build a true learning culture…
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How Should I Slice My Product? – A Call for Customer Journey Teams
Traditional org structures based on components often lead to coordination overload, unclear missions, and lack of ownership. This post argues for organizing product teams around customer journeys instead, enabling better alignment with real user needs and strategic business goals…
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OKRs – Objectives and Key Results: The Top 5 Pitfalls
Implementing OKRs can be deceptively simple, but sustaining their effectiveness poses challenges. To avoid the most common pitfalls, organisations should embrace OKRs as a tool for transparency, alignment, and continuous improvement…
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Task Forces – Good Intentions, but (Mostly) Bad Results
Task Forces are often launched with the best intentions—to quickly resolve urgent issues or unplanned requirements. But when they become permanent fixtures, they signal deeper structural problems. Over time, such setups lead to hidden costs: code quality suffers, coordination overhead increases, and product strategy gets diluted…
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Portfolio Kanban: Hype or Help? 3 Steps to Make It Really Work
Portfolio Kanban is more than a buzzword – it’s a powerful tool to bring transparency, flow, and focus to organisational project work beyond the team level. The post outlines how a simple physical board, regular standups, and iterative refinement helped a company gain clarity on what’s in progress, who’s blocked, and what really matter…
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Storytelling: Your Unfair Advantage – Let the Story Do the Work!
Too many product ideas are shared too late and too abstract — via mockups, epics, or business cases that lack emotional context. Storytelling is a powerful way to create clarity and alignment earlier…
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“I’m a Product Leader Now. So What’s Next?” – 4 Paths to Successful Product Leadership
Becoming a Product Leader is not just a promotion – it’s a shift in mindset, responsibility, and influence. Suddenly, it’s no longer just about building great products yourself, but about enabling others to do so at scale. This post outlines four key principles that help Product Leaders navigate the transition…
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The Art of Pretotyping – Fake it before you make it!
Pretotyping is the art of testing product ideas before investing in full development. It’s about answering the most critical question first: “Would anyone actually use this if it existed?” Pretotyping is a mindset: Think big, start fake, learn fast…
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Leading by Intent – The Product Owner’s Most Underrated Superpower (and 3 Common Pitfalls)
“Leading by Intent” is more than just explaining goals—it’s about giving purpose. Effective Product Owners act as narrators of strategy, not just backlog managers. They shape context, not just tickets…
..Lean Product Management. In action.
