There are hundreds of A+ games out there in which we all wouldn’t have indulged if not for their captivating stories and lore. Some of the best stories ever written are best expressed through games. Just look at this list of recognizable award-winning titles. This article by Adeyemi Thompson explains…

Staying productive can be challenging for those who are navigating through ambiguity. Here are ways to push back against distractions. — Product Managers (PMs) sit at the core of their product teams, directing traffic and ensuring business success. They work to unblock engineers, work with designers on conceptualization, strategize on roadmaps, prioritize, and track product success through analytics and other ways.

The search space has never reached a more critical point in its history within the software industry. — This was already hinted at the moment Microsoft made its $10 billion splash in OpenAI. It was then further perpetuated into reality once the new ChatGPT and Bing integration was released to the public. What’s next for search engines in general? Will Bing actually crawl its way back into relevancy…

Because sometimes, interview answers which sound counterintuitive can actually be the most impactful. It’s a rainy afternoon in Redmond, Washington— a typical cloudy bed sheet seemed to be casting itself over the entire PNW area like a bird cage. Yet no matter how disruptive any weather can be, the tech…

With the product practice ever so prevalent across industries, the catalog of tips to optimize a product manager’s life is huge. — Yet due to the sophisticated variations of product management and its tough nature, some fundamental tips have fallen to the abyss of people’s minds, and here are four which I’d like to resurface. 1. Prepare a list of frameworks, but apply them intuitively Many PMs know the typical product or business-related frameworks which they’ve learned over the years. These frameworks…

70% of commercial indie games are considered failures — they don’t generate enough revenue. On top of that, based on the same source, only 30% of all games are considered financially successful — but of that slice, only 7% of those games will generate enough revenue to fund a second…

Technology employees are notorious for their shorter tenures at respective employers. Product managers are no different. — A common mutter among non-tech people is that some of their tech compatriots seem to boast shorter average tenures within their past teams or companies. Engineers, PMs, and designers will sometimes jump the gun at the “one year” or “two years” mark. …

More often than not, PMs across the globe find themselves in a cross-functional team that spreads across multiple time zones. How do we tackle this? — High-speed internet, screen-sharing, and other digital innovations have allowed global remote work to be incredibly easy. Many companies have teams — engineers, designers, QA, marketers, or other functions — spread across multiple countries and thus multiple time zones. As a PM, your job is to enable cross-collaboration, bring clarity on…

A product management role varies from place to place, but here are three reasons why we’re seeing so many differences. As with all jobs, core responsibilities may vary at the team level, company level, or even industry level. …