Fri.Sep 02, 2016

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A Toolset For Getting Unstuck When Your Creativity Is Blocked

The Secret PM Handbook

A Very Creative Block – Penrose Triangle by Wes Peck, CC 2.0 license. We product managers are inventing stuff most of the time. Whether it’s new features, or designs, or go to market materials, or just making decisions. And that means we are going to have creative blocks. A lot. That is, except for those times when we can steal stuff from others.

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JTBD for better products–and other innovation insights for product managers Sep 2, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Using the “jobs-to-be-done” framework for better products. I’m a big fan of the jobs-to-be-done tool for deeply understanding customer problems and motivation. The approach asks “what job did you hire a product to do” to understand the motivation of product purchases.