Best Of Product Roundup - April 7, 2024

The best expert-curated product content from the best product thinkers from around the Internet delivered twice a month.

Every two weeks we consume all the product content on the Internet (free and paid), analyze it, and then we round-up links and short excerpts from the best content to:

• Save you thousands of dollars per month in unnecessary subscriptions

• Help you avoid spending days per week just reading instead of doing

• And most importantly, we save you years spent trying the wrong advice.

• Finally, we promote thinkers in product who are doing great work whether well known or soon-to-be-known!

Top Long-Form Articles

6 Product Manager archetypes to avoid

• Easy to follow breakdown of the ways Product Managers should try not to evolve.

• Choice Quote: “Handing off features to someone else to figure out the ‘small details’ has never worked.”

• What we liked: these archetypes are extremely common and yet misguided, and there’s a handy link to alternative approaches so you know what to try next.

5 tips for building effective product teams

• A summary of key traits to foster in strong product teams.

• Choice Quote: “The objective […] is not to build the best product, nor to drive the most short term sales, it’s to find a scalable and repeatable business model.”

• What we liked: Gives good strategic and tactical examples of what these traits look like. Nicely articulates why Product Owner has become a dangerous role to cultivate.

Top Tweets

• Top 101 product books by discipline

• Why 80% of features are rarely or never used. (Oldie but Goodie)