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Why Product Management?

Posted on October 16, 2020October 20, 2020 By John

Why does the product management function exist and what value can it provide a business? In its simplest form, product management exists to represent the…

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#MyFavoriteProduct August 21: Lulu Cheng on Google Photos

Posted on August 21, 2018August 22, 2018 By John

Lulu is a product manager on the Discovery team at Pinterest, where she focuses on creating intuitive, personalized recommendation experiences. Before Pinterest she was a…

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A Pile of Rocks and a Plan

Posted on July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 By John

It is November 2013.  There is a pile of rocks fourteen feet high strewn about in the land behind my house.  In fact, there are…

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#MyFavoriteProduct July 23: Ellen Chisa on Amazon E-reader

Posted on July 23, 2018July 24, 2018 By John

Ellen Chisa is the CEO and Cofounder of Dark, a startup aims to democratize coding by making it an order of magnitude easier for engineers…

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How Important is the Product Name?

Posted on June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 By John

How much time, money and effort have we spent naming our products and companies?  Is it worth it?  Does a name really matter? Last week,…

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#MyFavoriteProduct May 30: Alexis Schuette on Simbi

Posted on May 30, 2018May 30, 2018 By John

Alexis Schuette is a Senior Product Manager at The Grommet and Agile enthusiast.  She is also the founder of InterACT Labs, a training organization focused on…

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Please – Take our Product Launch Template

Posted on May 10, 2018May 30, 2018 By John

Thanks for visiting Growth and Grit.  Click here to access a template I’ve used for product launches in the past.  It is very generic and…

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Doing Things that “Do Scale”

Posted on April 7, 2018May 21, 2018 By John

It can be fun doing things that don’t scale in the early days of a product or business. Whether it’s testing product-market fit, marketing messaging…

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How to Stay Sane During a Product Launch

Posted on September 25, 2017May 21, 2018 By John

A Simple Framework for Launching (and Managing) Products If you’ve had the pleasure of watching a gaggle of five year olds play soccer, then –…

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#MyFavoriteProduct August 3: Alicia Dixon on Philips’ Wake-up Light

Posted on August 3, 2017May 22, 2018 By John

Alicia Dixon has over a decade of experience building consumer and enterprise technology solutions, which evolved into a specialization in mobile apps.  She enjoys focusing on new…

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About Me

Hey.  I’m John and this is where I share thoughts on product management.

Several years ago, I found my calling in Product Management, including building/launching products and developing product teams.  I’ve worked some pretty neat tech companies like Intuit, Validity, Virgin Pulse and Dun & Bradstreet.

Thanks for visiting!  And I’d love to connect too.  Shoot me an email or find me on LinkedIn.

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