Product Managers | Practitioners

Technical articles from product managers.

  • Metrics, Product Management, and You: Knowing You Did a Good Thing

    Metrics, Product Management, and You: Knowing You Did a Good Thing

    Defining success metrics can be daunting for even experienced product managers. This post explains how one simple question ("How do we know we did a good thing?") can help you create better metrics.

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  • The People Behind PAS for K8s

    The People Behind PAS for K8s

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  • The Art of Interrupting Software Engineers

    The Art of Interrupting Software Engineers

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  • Developing, Architecting, Testing, & Documenting your API [Part 4 of 4]

    Developing, Architecting, Testing, & Documenting your API [Part 4 of 4]

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  • Measuring Objectives in the Development of Software-Based Enterprise Products

    Measuring Objectives in the Development of Software-Based Enterprise Products

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  • Designing & Developing an API Product [Part 3 of 4]

    Designing & Developing an API Product [Part 3 of 4]

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  • Principles of Designing & Developing an API Product [Part 2 of 4]

    Principles of Designing & Developing an API Product [Part 2 of 4]

    In this blog, we share the process we took to design the APIs to meet business and user needs.

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  • A Balanced Approach to Security

    A Balanced Approach to Security

    How to strive towards this balanced security team and achieve great (and secure) experiences for all.

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  • 5 Conversations You Should Be Having About Your User Stories

    5 Conversations You Should Be Having About Your User Stories

    If a story is a placeholder for a conversation, when does that conversation happen? Who has it? What do they talk about? Here are five moments engineering and product should be checking in with each.

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  • Principles of Designing & Developing an API Product [Part 1 of 4]

    Principles of Designing & Developing an API Product [Part 1 of 4]

    Resourcing & Designing Your API: For product managers, designers, engineers

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  • Confronting (and Embracing) Risk Aversion

    Confronting (and Embracing) Risk Aversion

    Amanda White on approaches that work well for getting buy-in from people who are particularly risk-averse.

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  • Practical Advice Regarding Roadmaps

    Practical Advice Regarding Roadmaps

    Aloka Penmetcha, Director of Product Management, answers frequently asked questions in regards to Roadmaps.

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  • Story Templates for Product Managers

    Story Templates for Product Managers

    An overview of how product managers at Pivotal approach writing stories.

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  • Taking Product Development To the Next Level

    Taking Product Development To the Next Level

    Why adding in a data science component results in smarter applications and increased business value.

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  • Do You Have a Good Outcome-Oriented Roadmap?

    Do You Have a Good Outcome-Oriented Roadmap?

    Aloka Penmetcha, Director of Product Management at Pivotal San Francisco, maps out six tests she recommends all teams consider using to assess the quality of their outcome-oriented roadmaps.

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  • Keeping the Lines Open

    Keeping the Lines Open

    Why communication and camaraderie are necessary for a distributed teamThis post was co-written by Harlie LevineDistributed teams are hard. It’s extremely difficult to have a group of people...

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  • A Day in the Life of a Product Manager at Pivotal Cloud Foundry

    A Day in the Life of a Product Manager at Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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  • Team Stewardship–Decisions at the Line of Code

    Team Stewardship–Decisions at the Line of Code

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  • Why Starting With End-to-End Customer Journeys Isn't Good For The Customer

    Why Starting With End-to-End Customer Journeys Isn't Good For The Customer

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  • Pivoting into Product Management

    Pivoting into Product Management

    This week for Pivotal Voices, we’re featuring Sharon Tam, Senior Product Manager at Pivotal New York.When I was growing up, my nickname used to be Shady Sharon because I was always caught up in...

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