Published in Product Coalition·Apr 22A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”Finally, “Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. As argued in the intro of the book, even though enterprise software…Product Management18 min read
Published in Bootcamp·Mar 9A summary of “Talking to humans”It‘s been a while since I found the time to write. Yes, I have to acknowledge that two kids are more effort than just one. My deepest respect to other parents having more than 2. How do you do it? Ok back to the initial topic. Every new year I…UX10 min read
Dec 28, 2020A summary of “Build What Matters” by Ben Foster and Rajesh Nelikar — Part 4: Roadmaps, processes, teams, and culture.Welcome back if you just finished the third part, in which we looked at what a customer journey vision is and how it can be used to communicate the end-state in mind. Additionally, we looked at how to define and use a proper product strategy. In this final and fourth…Product Management16 min read
Dec 3, 2020A summary of “Build What Matters” by Ben Foster and Rajesh Nelikar — Part 3: Customer journey vision and product strategyIn the last part we left off at defining your Key customer outcome, or in short what’s the one thing you measure your progress to. But what’s the end-state? Where do you want to go with your product? …Product Management12 min read
Nov 27, 2020A summary of “Build What Matters” by Ben Foster and Rajesh Nelikar — Part 2: Key customer outcomesIn their careers, Ben and Rajesh have experienced multiple companies focusing on extracting value from customers rather than delivering value to them. The authors underline this by a quote of Melissa Perri: “Product-led businesses provide solutions to address customers’ wants and needs. Customers will only provide value back to businesses…Outcomes8 min read
Nov 9, 2020A summary of “Build What Matters” by Ben Foster and Rajesh Nelikar — Part 1: Intro to “Why Product isn’t working”After reading and summarizing both “Inspired” and “Escaping the build trap” I felt massively energized to do the right thing and shift from output to outcome-based Product Management. But let’s face it, that’s easier said than done. While both books are great at providing you definitions and reasons of why…Product Management6 min read
May 11, 2020A summary of INSPIRED by Marty CaganIt’s been a while since I read INSPIRED by Marty Cagan. Nevertheless, my fainted memories still echo that it was one of the best books I’ve ever read about Product Management. …17 min read
Mar 27, 2020A summary of “Escaping the build trap” by Melissa PerriWhenever people asked me which book I would recommend to them for entering Product Management, I always immediately told them to first read “Inspired” by Marty Cagan, also known for being the founder of the SVPG. …Product Management16 min read
Published in RIAG Digital Techblog·Mar 21, 2020The road to a white label solutionThe Context RIAG.digital is a relatively young organisational entity that supports different subsidiaries of REWE International AG in developing and maintaining web applications, APIs, and backend systems. Back in the past, all the independent subsidiaries of REWE used to have their own development teams or contractors. That created a whole slew of…Product Management12 min read
Mar 3, 2020About mindful mediation — A summary of “Search Inside Yourself” by Chade-Meng Tan (2/3)In the first part of this book summary, I tried to convey the benefits of mindful meditation (i.e., attention training). I wrote about the clear and calm mind, how it forms the foundation of your cognitive and emotional abilities, and how it’s connected to emotional intelligence. …Self Mastery10 min read