This story was originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com Are product management certifications worth it? The short answer: it depends The value of a certification will depend on your goals and level of experience with Product Management. Here are some possible goals and how useful a certification might be: 1. I want to get into Product Management for the first time: highly useful (see…

This article was originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com Finding a new job is hard. Hiring is also hard. As a hiring manager you’re working two jobs; one as an interviewer / recruiter, the other still trying to fulfill your normal responsibilities. I recently had an opening on my team. …

Originally published on www.RetroRabbit.io Retrospectives are easy to overlook as sources for team optimization and improvement. A lot of people talk about the downsides of not having retrospectives at all, but there are definitely problems that can come up if your retrospective meetings are run in the wrong way. Here…

Originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com I recently had a pretty frustrating experience with a Saas (Software as a service) product I love which really hammers home the importance of price transparency. I live my life off of Trello (includes a referral link) to organize everything, whether it is task lists for…

Originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com Scientific based AB testing is a skillset critical to any eCommerce Product Manager. There is a lot that can go wrong with AB tests. …

Originally published on www.RetroRabbit.io I ran a recent poll on LinkedIn to understand what the biggest pain points of retrospectives are. While it seems like everyone has something they could optimize about their retrospectives, here were the top three problems that stood out the most: 45% of poll participants said…

Originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com Last week, I wrote an article running through a framework product managers can use to gain more confidence in the success of their feature without building the actual functionality behind it. …

Originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com As Product Managers, our job is to maximize the value of the engineering team. We do this by coming up with ideas that have as high of a probability for success as possible. How do Product Managers do that successfully? …

Originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com A few weeks ago, someone reached out to me through the contact form on my website with a Product Management question (which I love by the way, please reach out if you have any questions, want recommendations, etc). Alissa, an eCommerce Product Manager who is the…