Product Managers | Practitioners

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.

The People Behind PAS for K8s

The Art of Interrupting Software Engineers

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

Measuring Objectives in the Development of Software-Based Enterprise Products

Designing & Developing an API Product [Part 3 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.

A Balanced Approach to Security

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

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.

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

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

Confronting (and Embracing) Risk Aversion

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

Practical Advice Regarding Roadmaps

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

Story Templates for Product Managers

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

Taking Product Development To the Next Level

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

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.

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...

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

Team Stewardship–Decisions at the Line of Code

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

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...