Kent McDonald

What makes a product portfolio work? Learn to define strategy, allocate investment, and monitor execution across teams — all from one bird's-eye view.

Are you contemplating switching your company to a new dedicated product management solution? If yes, this article can lead you and help you a lot with all the processes from ideation to execution.

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a powerful tool that companies and their product teams can use to align on goals and measure progress toward meeting those goals. How you write your OKRs gets you off to a great start toward accomplishing part or all of your objectives. Here’s a look at five steps to follow when writing both Company and Product OKRs.

Have you ever discovered that the product management techniques that served you well on past products just don’t seem to be working in your latest effort?

In this article learn the pros, cons, and essential signs indicating the need for digital transformation in your organization. Learn how leveraging digital technologies can keep your business ahead in a rapidly evolving digital world

Discover how to identify key stakeholders, communicate with them, set expectations, and utilize tools to streamline collaboration. Master the crucial skill of managing relationships with stakeholders for product success.

To keep or remove a feature? Product managers need to get into the minds of their users to introduce or keep features that offer value. And here are metrics that can help them do just that.

An effective product spec helps the team stay united on a vision for the product, why and for whom they are building it. Here is a step by step guide on how to create a product spec (with examples).

Here’s a look at product-market fit, what it is, why it’s important, how to get it, and how to know when you’ve reached it.

The prioritization grid, and a related technique the prioritization matrix provide one set of criteria. Let’s take a look at what these techniques are and how  you can use them to narrow down the options you have to pick from and ultimately pick which option to work on first.

A key piece of every agile software development framework is the notion of a cross functional team that has all the skills necessary to deliver value on a regular basis. These teams go by a variety of names, whether it’s a scrum team in the Scrum framework or an agile team in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Here’s an explanation of the difference between roles and titles, a description of the three common product titles, and how product teams are structrued.

I spent my career working on internal products in a variety of different organizations. Here’s a look at my experience so far.