The Secrets of Product Management Podcast by Nils Davis: tips for product managers, covering storytelling, go to market,innovation, resumes, job interviews, PRDs, working with developers, persuasion and influence

Product management suffers from tool problems - we don't have a system of record. In this episode I describe the problem, its impact on us, and how to cobble a basic system of record together using tools and materials you probably have lying around the house.

10 tips you can start using today to become a better product manager, get your sales people to love you, win more deals, and watch your profits soar.

In this episode, a common product management metaphor that’s actually terrible, plus two GOOD metaphors you can use to help you create better products. We use lots of metaphors for understanding, justifying, and explaining the things we do as product managers. Whether it’s our analytics as “the cockpit of a plane,” or comparing design constraints Read More

Even highly cognitively capable people - including product managers - can forget to do simple things that they know they should do. In this episode I discuss the power of checklists in general, a product management-related checklist you can start using right away, and some ideas for how you can embed checklists in your products to help your customers solve their problems.

Product managers are unicorns - simply based on the numbers we are rare. But in another sense too - there's no formula for "great product manager."

In this episode I cover a fundamental skill and mindset about communication - the number one thing at which product managers must excel.

Like so many of my podcasts, this episode started from a Slack conversation last week. “What are some good products that were marketed badly?” Of course, if a good product is marketed badly, that usually means it’s going to fail, which usually means no one ever heard of it. But the fact is that there Read More

Compelling customer success stories are one of the most powerful tools in your go-to-market arsenal. In this episode I cover their structure, the questions to ask, and how to use them to help close more deals.

"How can I get my team to go faster?" The fact is, you really can't get them to go much faster. But you can make sure they're going the right direction.

In this episode I present a somewhat iconoclastic list of books related to product management that I’ve found extremely valuable, and which don’t often appear on those other "product management book" lists.