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, 2020
- 2 min
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
- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
Dare to not be Productive
Innovation sometimes appears between the lines In today’s world, we are bombarded with people telling us that we need to be productive...
Benny Reich
- May 7, 2020
- 7 min
The Qualities of a Product Manager
What I look for in a Product Manager. Product managers have to be able to do many tasks across a wide spectrum. Usually, their strength...
Benny Reich
- Dec 31, 2019
- 5 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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
- Nov 6, 2019
- 4 min
Why Product Managers should care about Development Culture
Make sure your tools are optimized. As product managers, we focus on many things including strategy, execution and mostly connecting...
Benny Reich
- Sep 30, 2019
- 4 min
What is the Product of the VP Product?
When your product is your team. Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product...
Benny Reich
- Sep 1, 2019
- 2 min
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
- Aug 1, 2019
- 2 min
The All-in-One ProductManager
Why product managers should be an all-in-one deal and should be involved in everything (sales, marketing, support, etc). Should you split...
Benny Reich
- Jul 1, 2019
- 4 min
The Versatile Product Manager
Why product managers should be working in different markets and expertise and why companies should be looking for such product managers....
Benny Reich
- Jun 1, 2019
- 4 min
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
- May 1, 2019
- 3 min
Is Product Management like Parenting?
Love your Product. In a recent lecture I gave, I compared product management to parenting. While I was still preparing the lecture, I...
Benny Reich
- Apr 1, 2019
- 4 min
Launch a Podcast like a Product Manager
Bring product management into everything you do. Half a year ago an idea was slowly blooming. I should do a podcast about product...
Benny Reich
- Mar 1, 2019
- 4 min
Reverse Interview
Take control of your career by interviewing your employer. Many have written about what qualities they are looking for in a product...
Benny Reich
- Feb 1, 2019
- 2 min
Product Management Blog Retrospective
What I Learned from a Year of Product Management Blogging. Write your Passion There are many reasons why people start writing blogs. The...
Benny Reich
- Jan 1, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 6 min
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
- Nov 1, 2018
- 8 min
Mentoring 101.
Step by step product management mentoring. In Mentoring Thinking I explained why it’s good to become a mentor. This time as a special...
Benny Reich
- Oct 1, 2018
- 4 min
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,...
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