The skills and knowledge required to succeed as a PM are not easily learned. Being a product manager is hard and being a great product manager is even harder. We have a deep respect for PM’s that move product teams to success. How a PM faces challenges, from day to day tasks to high-level product strategy initiatives, makes a profound impact on the long term success or failure of a product.

In 2019, worldwide mobile app revenues reached $461.7 billion. By 2023, they are projected to double. The mobile app world is vast and varied. With a little over 200 billion mobile app downloads in 2019 (expected to reach 300 billion downloads by 2023), no one anticipates the development of mobile applications to slow down soon. With so much competition, finding the right mobile app development agency to invest in, is critical to the initial launch and long term success of your mobile app. It is important that you choose a company that has the expertise, talent, and passion, to bring your app idea to the next level. Enjoy our 8 best tips for how to choose the best mobile app development company.

Choosing a high-quality software development team to build the latest mobile or web application your company needs can be stressful. You’ll encounter a myriad of opinions on the topic, many boast about the benefits of outsourcing, many argue that a dedicated team can only be found in house. Considering overall project requirements, budget, and required time to market are among the most important qualifications to evaluate before making a decision.

These days, many of us are working from home. Many are experiencing reduced working hours and some are not working at all. However, our situation doesn’t define us, it’s how we handle it that does. This unique time in our lives presents an opportunity for education. We can spend our quarantine hours catching up on episodes of Silicon Valley, or learning and building our knowledge base to be better prepared for the future. We encourage you to choose the later, although a healthy balance of both couldn’t hurt. Our team melded minds and put together a reading list of top books to help you advance your career in product management and business.

When a project is unsuccessful, there could be many causes. However, lack of overall vision, and alignment among the team around that vision is a likely culprit. Every successful venture must grow around a strategic vision that the entire team is on board with. Here are 7 tactics we’ve used to ensure success and meet product goals on over 135 projects in the last 15 years.

If you’re a “PM”, you’re in the right place. This article is for those that find themselves drowning in the world of product development, where your vital work is often misunderstood or underappreciated. You know that when it comes to creating a product vision to build a product that meets business goals and ultimately, achieves product/market fit, you’ll experience pushback from senior management.

Being a small business owner, you undoubtedly know what it’s like to be feel overwhelmed with all the day-to-day tasks it takes to run a business. Even if you have enough employees and/or freelancers working for you, there never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything done. So, why would you consider putting one more thing on your to-do list, such as learning and implementing new technology in your operations?

The design process can be messy and monotonous. To reduce the propensity for error and create scalability, designers build out a design system. Most practically defined as “a set of reasonable patterns and behaviors that define the product”, a design system is a simple, yet seemingly revolutionary way to produce quality design work, efficiently. It is often described as the “single source of truth” for the entire team involved in a product’s development.

Enterprise application integration is a vessel of ease and efficiency. In its simplest and most practical form, EAI is designed to improve the connectivity of applications within an enterprise. Though the term “EAI” wasn’t coined until the early 2000s, the greater concept is decades old: find a way to seamlessly join multiple business-critical systems that are themselves, distinct.