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See allScott's framework places feedback on two axes of caring personally and challenging directly. Radical candour needs both, and the failure modes are ruinous empathy, obnoxious aggression and manipulative insincerity.
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Certification Prep
See allA course based product management credential built on the Pragmatic Framework. Pragmatic Institute awards it for completing three courses, Foundations, Focus and Build. The credential it grants is called Pragmatic Product Manager.
A certification for product managers who have to choose what to measure, instrument it, read what comes back and run an experiment that somebody can trust. Six modules with an assessment of 90 questions.
A certification for product managers who have to write a strategy and defend it. Six modules with an assessment of 90 questions, built around the choices a strategy actually makes.
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See allThe official course for the Product Owner accountability, covering the Scrum framework, Product Backlog management and value. Attendance includes a PSPO I exam attempt, though the exam can also be sat without the course.
AI-Driven Product StrategyKellogg Executive EducationKellogg's online product strategy programme, running through product vision and leadership, opportunity analysis and discovery, planning and roadmapping, pricing and monetisation, then go to market and product led growth. AI runs through the modules rather than sitting in one of them. A score of 80 per cent is needed to pass and earn the digital certificate.
Toastmasters MembershipToastmasters InternationalStructured speaking practice through the Pathways learning paths, with prepared speeches, peer evaluation and impromptu Table Topics at every meeting. Members also take meeting roles, which is where the honest commentary on your own habits comes from. For anyone who has to present to executives, the value is weekly repetition in front of an audience that gives feedback.
SAFe Product Owner/Product ManagerScaled AgileThe certification for product roles inside the Scaled Agile Framework, covering backlog ownership and forecasting, leading and supporting PI Planning, and keeping several backlogs pointed at the same business goals. The current AI-Empowered release adds material on using AI in refinement and prioritisation. The exam runs for 90 minutes and needs 82 per cent to pass.
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See allDefinitions for the measures investors ask about, grouped into business, product engagement and presentation. The closing section on chart tricks is quietly the most useful, because it shows how a number can be technically true and still mislead the reader.
Technical Debt Quadrantmartinfowler.com · Martin FowlerSplits debt along two axes, prudent against reckless and deliberate against inadvertent. Handy when you need to show a stakeholder that some shortcuts were a business decision while others point at a gap in skills or review.
SaaS Metrics 2.0For Entrepreneurs · David SkokA long reference covering unit economics, cohort analysis and the cash flow trough that catches growing subscription businesses. Skok's rules of thumb on lifetime value against acquisition cost get quoted everywhere, and here you get the reasoning underneath them.
Growth Loops are the New FunnelsReforgeReframes growth as a closed loop where the output of one cycle becomes the input to the next, rather than a funnel needing to be refilled from the top. The loop diagram is the part teams end up redrawing on their own wall.
Free Product Templates
See allThe customer you are serving, the problem worth solving, the approach you are betting on, what you are deliberately not doing, and the conditions that have to hold for any of it to work.
Everything that has to happen from two weeks out to one week after release, grouped by when it falls due, each line with a named owner and a go or no go decision on the day.
Reach, Impact, Confidence and Effort columns with the score formula built in, defined confidence bands, and a column recording the assumption behind each input.