Tag: collaboration-and-communication

How Expectancy Theory Can Motivate Your Team

How expectancy theory can motivate your team

Product Management

The basis of expectancy theory is linking high efforts to desirable outcomes. Learn how implementing expectancy theory can motivate your team.

Sara Nguyen
May 3, 2023 ⋅ 6 min read
Implementing First Principles Thinking Into Your Team

Implementing first principles thinking into your team

Product Management

Implementing a first principles approach can help a product manager and their product team think more creatively and critically about product development.

Abhinav Gupta
Apr 28, 2023 ⋅ 4 min read
What Is Stakeholder Analysis? Template, Examples, Frameworks

What is stakeholder analysis? Template, examples, frameworks

Product Management

Stakeholder analysis is a systematic process of mapping out the key groups who have a vested interest in a product and assessing their needs and expectations.

Emma Burt
Apr 27, 2023 ⋅ 7 min read
Using Design Thinking Steps To Build Great Products

Using design thinking steps to build great products

Product Management

Design thinking is a user-centric, iterative approach to problem-solving that encourages empathy, experimentation, and collaboration.

Bart Krawczyk
Apr 13, 2023 ⋅ 4 min read
How To Write A Problem Statement: Template And Examples

How to write a problem statement: Template and examples

Product Management

As a PM, you and your team likely will face many different customer pain points, needs, and opportunities. It helps to have a well-structured, evidence-based problem statement.

Ian Khor
Apr 12, 2023 ⋅ 7 min read

How to conduct informative after action reviews (AARs)

Product Management

AARs can transform a reactionary company into a proactive one by allowing teams to learn and understand how their decisions and actions impact the business and its objectives.

Leah Campbell
Apr 7, 2023 ⋅ 10 min read
What Is A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)? Template, Examples

What is a work breakdown structure (WBS)? Template, examples

Product Management

Work breakdown structures (WBS) help project leaders organize large projects into smaller, more manageable steps.

Praveenkumar Revankar
Mar 27, 2023 ⋅ 9 min read
What Is Affinity Grouping? Definition, Examples, And How-To

What is affinity grouping? Definition, examples, and how-to

Product Management

In this article, we introduce the affinity grouping method. We share tools and best practices and examine how you can integrate analytics.

Zeynep Cansu Yildirim
Mar 20, 2023 ⋅ 6 min read
How To Write An Executive Summary: Templates And Examples

How to write an executive summary: Templates and examples

Product Management

The executive summary can be a great way for product managers to secure buy-in quickly from upper management and senior stakeholders.

Shehab Beram
Mar 17, 2023 ⋅ 4 min read
What Are Product Specifications? Guide, Examples, and Template

What are product specifications? Guide, examples, and template

Product Management

In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how you can use product specs to drive better discovery, promote collaboration, identify problems, and validate solutions.

Emma Burt
Mar 16, 2023 ⋅ 5 min read
10 Productivity Tips To Be A More Efficient Product Manager

10 productivity tips to be a more efficient product manager

Product Management

Optimizing one’s personal productivity is essential to strive as a product manager. Every one percent improvement counts tremendously.

Bart Krawczyk
Mar 13, 2023 ⋅ 6 min read
What Is Low-Code/No-Code App And Product Development?

What is low-code/no-code app and product development?

Product Management

The fundamental value of low-code/no-code platforms is expanding the delivery power of a niche workforce — aka engineers — to everyone.

Antonio da Fonseca Neto
Mar 6, 2023 ⋅ 5 min read