Not Sure Where to Start on My Blog? Check Out the 20 Most Popular Posts

Now that I’ve been blogging regularly for several years, I thought it might be helpful to take a look at my blog’s performance and share the top 20 posts. I’m not doing this just to brag—since I’ve got quite a lot of content, I realize that new readers might be unsure where to dive in. This provides you a handy roadmap you can use to check out the most popular topics (or at least those that get the largest number of page views).

As I’ve started to do on the blog itself, I’ve divided these into the posts that are most relevant for individual contributor product managers and those that are more targeted to product leaders.

However, you’ll see there’s a lot of overlap between the two. After all, strong product leaders need a good foundation as strong product managers first!

The Top 20 Posts for Individual Contributor Product Managers

1. KPI Trees: How to Bridge the Gap Between Customer Behavior, Product Metrics, and Company Goals

2. The PMwheel – a Compass for the Product Manager Development Journey

3. A Lightweight Way to Create a Development Plan for PMs - the Future Self

4. On My Shelf

5. Why Agile Coaches Can't Be Product Coaches

6. How to use the PMwheel as a Self-Assessment Tool for Product Managers

7. A Brief List of Product Management Assessment Tools

8. My (Highly Opinionated) Guide to Product Maturity Assessment

9. Talk - Don’t Convince. Inspire!

10. How to Decide What Type of Product Coach is Right for You

11. Why There’s No Such Thing as Perfect (Agile) Transformation

12. 52 Questions Coaching Cards - The Do-It-Yourself Edition

13. Opportunity Assessment: Do We Want to Invest in Discovering This Idea?

14. A Few Simple Ways to Make the “Working Backwards” Press Release Work for You

15. How to Introduce Yourself as a Product Person - Better Introductions

16. Communities of Practice: What They Are, What They Do, And What I’m Hoping to Learn

17. Want to Launch or Mature Your Product Community of Practice? Start Here!

18. Developing as a Product Manager

19. Product Communities of Practice: Everything You Need to Know

20. Are You a Product Manager Selecting a New Boss? Here’s How to Assess Product Leaders

The Top 20 Posts for Product Leaders

1. KPI Trees: How to Bridge the Gap Between Customer Behavior, Product Metrics, and Company Goals

2. The PMwheel – a Compass for the Product Manager Development Journey

3. A Lightweight Way to Create a Development Plan for PMs - the Future Self

4. On My Shelf

5. Why Agile Coaches Can't Be Product Coaches

6. A Brief List of Product Management Assessment Tools

7. When Should You NOT Work with a Coach?

8. My (Highly Opinionated) Guide to Product Maturity Assessment

9. How to Decide What Type of Product Coach is Right for You

10. Talk - Don’t Convince. Inspire!

11. Why There’s No Such Thing as Perfect (Agile) Transformation

12. 52 Questions Coaching Cards - The Do-It-Yourself Edition

13. Opportunity Assessment: Do We Want to Invest in Discovering This Idea?

14. A Few Simple Ways to Make the “Working Backwards” Press Release Work for You

15. How to Introduce Yourself as a Product Person - Better Introductions

16. Communities of Practice: What They Are, What They Do, And What I’m Hoping to Learn

17. Developing STRONG Product People—The 5 Main Ingredients for Being the Best Coach Your Product Managers Have Ever Had 

18. The Product Leader’s Guide to Balancing Product Discovery and Product Delivery

19. Want to Launch or Mature Your Product Community of Practice? Start Here!

20. The Art of Saying No, Product Leadership Edition

I’d also love to hear from you directly—are there any topics that you don’t see here that you think should be on this list (either because it’s something you’d like to see me write about or because you think it’s a topic more people should read about)?

One final thing to note: My books STRONG Product People and STRONG Product Communities go into much more depth on many of these topics, so they’re worth checking out as well!