Making It Right – Product Management For A Startup World
Product management is one of the most exhausting, exhilarating, stressful, and rewarding careers out there.
It’s not for the faint of heart. It’s for people who want to move mountains. It swallows some whole, but others derive endless invigoration and passion from the pace and the impact and the glory and the huge potential for failure as well as success. There’s no other job like it, and this is a book to help you make it your job.
- Read an excerpt on Smashing Magazine: Why Companies Need Full-Time Product Managers (And What They Do All Day)
- Read a different excerpt on Medium: How to avoid building products that fail
- Buy on Amazon (Kindle, Paperback)
- Buy on iBooks
- Buy on Smashing Magazine
Freelance writing
A List Apart
- Author page
- Usable yet Useless: Why Every Business Needs Product Discovery (August 2012)
- Work Life Imbalance (September 2014)
- How to Do What You Love, the Right Way (October 2014)
- How to Interview (January 2015)
- Managing and Making: It Doesn’t Have to Be One or the Other (February 2015)
- Why we work (April 2015)
- Unsuck the Enterprise (July 2015)
- The Distance to Here (September 2015)
- The Analog Revolution (October 2015)
The Pastry Box
- Author page
- January 8 (January 2015)
- March 8 (March 2015)
- May 8 (May 2015)
Smashing Magazine
- Author page
- Breaking Down Silos, Part 1: The Consequences Of Working In Isolation (August 2011)
- Building Better Software Through Collaboration: Whose Job Is It, Anyway? (September 2011)
- The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience (November 2011)
- Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves (February 2012)
- A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children (March 2012)
- Design Patterns: When Breaking The Rules Is OK (June 2012)
- Making A Better Internet – Smashing Magazine (September 2012)
- The Immersive Web And Design Writing (October 2012)
- How To Sell Your UX Design Solution To Clients (February 2013)
- Why Companies Need Full-Time Product Managers (And What They Do All Day) (September 2014)
- Getting Back Into The (Right) Deliverables Business (December 2015)
One-off essays
- Prototyping for Product Managers: Q&A with Rian Van Der Merwe — Justinmind
- Free e-book: Practical User Research for Enterprise UX — UXPin
- Coffee and Craft — The Loop Magazine
- The Next Step for 3D Touch — UX Booth
- A technical guide to mobile usability testing — Unboxed Consulting
- The Different Classes of User Research: When to Use What — UserVoice Blog
- How = What + Why (Or, Where to Start Improving Your User Experience) — UserVoice Blog