Introducing Aha! Discovery — the new way to manage customer interviews
Learn more about the latest tool for product builders — Aha! Discovery. It is the new way to manage customer interviews, uncover key product insights, and link them to…
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Work Must Define You
Work has gotten a bad rap lately. It has earned the reputation as a necessary evil that you must be miserable doing. Many people say that you must maintain an equilibrium…
Why Exceptional Leaders Skip Lunch
We all have the same 24 hours in a given day, but not everyone chooses to spend their hours in a meaningful way. You may know someone who gained a leadership role who…
5 Habits of Hyper-Productive Developers
The Alpha Engineer rules Silicon Valley and all great technology ecosystems. He is tough to find, a genius in thought and a workhorse in productivity. He is worth 100 or…
How to Handle the Crazy Boss Screamer
What a great response to Tuesday’s article, How Confident Leaders Silence the Office Screamer. In this post, I related a story of a veteran kindergarten teacher who…
Aha! Launches Visual Roadmaps for IT, Consultants, Manufacturing, and Marketing Teams
Aha! has a roadmap for you, no matter what type of product or service you manage. We started Aha! to serve product managers, but quickly found that tons of other groups…
Break the Hiring Manager's Rules and Make Your Own
I was overwhelmed by the response to the article How Successful Candidates Steal Job Interviews. It seems that many job-seekers are searching out ways to get an edge in…
How Confident Managers Silence the Office Screamer
I am a father of boys. They are good kids, but even they have had a reasonable share of temper tantrums over the years. The tantrums — and how to respond to them —…
How Successful Candidates Steal Job Interviews
Searching for a job can be frustrating, especially if you are devoting full-time hours to the process. You spend hours laboring over the perfect cover letter and making…
5 Strategy Mistakes That Agile Product Teams Make
If your product team lives by the Agile manifesto or lean startup principles, then this may be your mantra: “Build the product; don’t fiddle with your plans for it.” Your…
Why Smart Bosses Give Bad Employees a Raise
In Tuesday’s article, “5 Lies Managers Tell to Avoid Giving Raises,” I discussed how some managers resort to bold-faced lies when employees ask why they are not getting a…
