Speck'd Out

a blog for PMs at startups and small-ish businesses

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  • The 6 Sections to Include in Your Next PRD ringing bell gif
  • The Ugly Truth About Outsourcing Development (And Tips to Make it Work)
  • The Product Manager's Essential Guide to Prioritization
  • The 7 Things on Every PM's Christmas Wishlist
  • MoSCoW Prioritization
  • How to Determine What Makes It Into an MVP
  • The Kano Model: What it is and how to use it to smoke the competition
  • Bloat is Bad: Here's How to Get Rid of It In Your Own Product
  • The DIE Prioritization Framework
  • 5 Ways to Keep Front-Line Teams Up-to-Date on Your Product
  • Disagree and Commit
  • The Skill You Must Have to Level Up as a PM
  • How to Write a Value Prop in 5 Easy Steps
  • A Checklist for Your First Week as the First PM at a Company
  • Don't Take Another PM Job Until You Know Which Of These You Prefer
  • What Everyone Failed to Mention about Being a PM in School
  • In-person Product Management is Dead. Long Live Product Management.
  • Chaos Managed: Using the Eisenhower Matrix to Prioritize Your Day-to-Day
  • The SPOT: Issue #10
  • No PMM on your team? No problem
  • "Working backwards" to Build Exciting Products
  • 5 Books to Level Up Your Product Management Skills
  • The SPOT: Issue #8
  • Why learning to code as a PM may just be the most valuable hard skill to have
  • The SPOT #7
  • Find Your True Top Priorities in Just 7 Minutes With RICE Prioritization
  • Use These 3 Tips to Be Less Awkward in Customer Interviews
  • The Spot #6
  • If You Only Hold One Meeting Before You Start Building a Feature, Make It This One
  • The Spot #5
  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Good User Story
  • The SPOT #4
  • Thinking About Trying Out Product Management Software? Read This First
  • The Spot #3
  • Thinking About Getting a PM Certification? Read this First
  • Creating Your Roadmap Is Only Half the Battle. This Is the Other Half (and It Ain’t Glamorous).
  • Lurking: The Key To Doing Unbiased Customer Discovery
  • Making the Leap From Engineering to Product Management
  • Daydreaming of Your Next Big Feature? Don’t Skip This Important Step
  • Non-technical? Stop Doubting Yourself and Become a Great Technical Communicator With These 3 Tips
  • The SPOT: Issue #1
  • Product Manager? Here's Why You Need to Learn How to Say "No" with Grace and Style
  • How to Prioritize When Everyone Wants Something Different
  • Thinking of Implementing a Decision-Making Framework? Read This First
  • Putting Speckled on the Chopping Block
  • The RICE Prioritization Formula

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