Benny Reich
Trust vs Commitments
Consider getting rid of time estimations The never-ending battle Time estimations are one of the major points of conflict between product...
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Benny Reich
Jul 18, 20202 min read
Are you willing to pay the price
What are you willing to sacrifice to get to your vision Many of us have a vision of where we want to get to. I am going to focus on a...
Benny Reich
Apr 5, 20204 min read
Agree to Disagree and the Importance of Questions
There is nothing worse than a culture that does not allow for questions while following decisions. A World in Crisis These days of...
Benny Reich
Mar 17, 20204 min read
Product Management in Times of Crisis
The role of the product manager is to focus the team even and especially in time of crisis Human Behavior While we all watch the world as...
Benny Reich
Feb 28, 20203 min read
Enabling Fast Decisions
The best hack for making good decisions fast is not needing to take them at all Empower to be Empowered In Make Yourself Redundant I...
Benny Reich
Dec 31, 20195 min read
How to Write Fewer Requirements
Free your time to be more strategic Requirements are overrated In Are Requirements Overrated and Your Role is not to Write Requirements I...
Benny Reich
Dec 4, 20193 min read
Technical Debt vs Product Managers
Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do...
Benny Reich
Sep 1, 20192 min read
Prioritize Yourself
There is no such concept as no time. It always gets down to priorities. Prioritizing Others If you ask product managers what are they...
Benny Reich
Jun 1, 20194 min read
Is Scrum Agile Enough?
When people forget the goal and focus on the method. Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles...
Benny Reich
Jan 1, 20193 min read
Are Requriements Overrated?
Why I don’t write long specifications. From Waterfall to Agile In the dark ages we all worked in waterfall. We planned everything months...
Benny Reich
Dec 1, 20186 min read
Treat your Roadmap as a Compass
How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. The Roadmap Challenge I recently participated in a...
Benny Reich
Oct 1, 20184 min read
Saying “No” when you want to say “Yes”.
It always gets down to priorities. Respect all Ideas As a product manager, if you do your job properly and make yourself approachable,...
Benny Reich
Aug 1, 20187 min read
Plan with Problems. Execute with Solutions.
How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies...
Benny Reich
Jul 1, 20184 min read
Don’t Manage your Stakeholders from your Ego
Consider your stakeholders as valuable resources rather than obstacles you need to overcome. Let's Start with a Story A colleague product...
Benny Reich
May 1, 20185 min read
Your Role is not to Write Requirements
Why product management role is so misunderstood. The Technical Aspect Throughout my career as product manager I have talked with many...
Benny Reich
Mar 1, 20185 min read
Always Think MVP
Why you should always assume you are not going to make it on time. MVP vs MVE When developing a product or a feature, if you follow the...
Benny Reich
Feb 2, 20185 min read
Own your product management on-boarding
How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Congratulations, you just landed a new product management position....
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