Reviewing year 2020 and creating my commitments for 2021

Reviewing 2020 Last year has definitely been a strange year for everyone. There have been tectonic changes regarding how we live, relate with each other and live. During last year some of the most deep assumptions around work have been put to test by the new reality forced upon us by COVID pandemic. What has …

This is why a shared vision is so important

Many product managers don’t give enough time to share their vision with their team so everyone is onboard around the destination the product is taking. This lack of communication around the product vision generates a number of problems. As we will see in this article, these problems have a simple solution. Simple, but not easy. …

As a Product Manager you should love continuous integration

Product Managers usually don’t talk about continuous integration, in spite of being a fundamental foundation of modern product management.  Continuous integration is not really a Product Management role.  It’s actually a function of the technology department, but having or not having continuous integration deeply impacts the way a Product Managers do their work. What is …

What competencies are companies looking for in Product Managers?

Due to the great success of the last Product Tank talk around the topic of how to obtain work as Product Manager, we decided that the first talk after summer would be focused on going deeper into the question of what do professionals and companies look when looking for a PM role. Let’s review what …

Cloud Data Integration Software is giving more power to startups

Startups, small business and big corporations can start getting the best software products in each and every category we could imagine.   The challenge in the past was: “How can I get those systems talking to each other, and also talking to my platform?”.  This problem is being solved by Cloud Data Integration Softwares in …

How to Co-Create Digital Products with Customers

In this article I explain how to work with users to understand their needs, frustrations and aspirations, and integrate the learnings in the products you are working on. What I’ve recently seen is that in the startup world there is real “data worship”.  Don’t listen to what customers have to say, just look at the …