Product
You’re the PM? I thought I was the PM!

You’re the PM? I thought I was the PM!

SDG’s Head of Product explores the relationship between *project* management and *product* management. One simple way to understand your company’s dominant mindset: what do you mean by the abbreviation “PM”?

Successful Digital Product Innovation

Successful Digital Product Innovation

Building software to bolster the digital capabilities of your business is a costly and time-consuming adventure. Often the digital products that are created during this process fail to return the desired business outcomes, fall short of user (and customer) needs, and...

How to give a great product demo

How to give a great product demo

Effective Demo’s are critical. Whether they happen as part of Scrum or just demoing in general, we talk about our thoughts, success, and a few failures!

The Product Mindset: Promises, Promises

The Product Mindset: Promises, Promises

Product Consultant, Jason Scherschligt discusses how to make and keep high-integrity commitments with key business partners while allowing time and space for product discovery and delivery.

From Atoms to Pixels: Digital Product and Manufacturing

From Atoms to Pixels: Digital Product and Manufacturing

This is the fifth in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. At first glance, software companies and manufacturing companies seem diametrically opposed: pixels vs atoms, machine learning vs. machines,...

Product Mindset with Jason Scherschligt

Product Mindset with Jason Scherschligt

Our Product Guru Jason Scherschlight talks with us about making the shift from viewing Software Development Projects as Software Development Projects.

The Product Mindset: Let Them Eat Cake

The Product Mindset: Let Them Eat Cake

For a clue about what a company or team (or a person or nation) values, just look at what it celebrates. After all, we celebrate things we're proud of or things that are meaningful to us. If you work in business or technology, you're likely familiar with the rituals...

The Product Mindset: Your Secret Weapon is Value

The Product Mindset: Your Secret Weapon is Value

This is the third in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. As we've explored throughout this series, a surefire way for companies and teams to improve their value to their customers and align their own...

In Progress and the Curse of Reductionism

In Progress and the Curse of Reductionism

This is the third in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. As we've explored throughout this series, a surefire way for companies and teams to improve their value to their customers and align their own...

The Product Mindset: It’s Your Users’ Product

The Product Mindset: It’s Your Users’ Product

This is the second in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. Several years ago, one or another of my daughters (I have three) said, "Whoa. Dad has an Instagram?" First of all, my Instagram account is...

The Product Mindset

The Product Mindset

Product is enjoying a moment. Twenty years ago, when I first landed a job with the title of "Product manager, interactive media," not many people even knew what the job was. (Confession: I may not have even known what the job was!). Now every smart company is building...