Christophe Dujarric

Building the Right Product: Why, What, and How

Reminder: don’t trust fancy methodology names I tend to repeat myself over all of the articles I’m publishing here, yet let me do it one more time for this particular topic: I don’t believe in dogmas.

A Guide: Frugality in Offline Events for SaaS Startups

Introduction Frugality is the quality of being frugal, sparing, thrifty, prudent, or economical in the consumption of resources such as food, time or money, and avoiding waste, lavishness or extravagance.

Product Design, Roadmap, and Estimations

I’ve written about this topic already, a long time ago. Yet, it was with other words, with less experience. And I’m doing it again, as throughout the teams I met and worked with, it still seems like a key pushback, while it really is in the best interest of everyone, engineers, PMs, and anyone else alike.

Chatbots, My Rules of Engagement

Many can witness, I can be considered a laggard when it comes to using Chatbots. I must say, I’ve always been super cautious about those beasts.

Hopes and (Reasonable) Expectations

It might feel like a strange topic to revive this blog once more but taking a step back, it is the result of now 17 years of working in start-up and scale-up companies. I won’t pretend I’m some sort of wise, old man. But I’ve learnt a couple of things, and I like sharing it.

Go-to-Market & Discovery: When Is the Last Time You Talked to a Lead?

Last week, I had a real blast giving a talk at ProductInCorp summit Nantes 2024.

Some Keys to Setting Objectives

Why not read this post further I wondered for a minute whether I’d title this blog post “Forget about setting objectives”. Why? Essentially because, as you might have noticed if you read some of my past posts, I’m rather against dogmas. And today, at least in the software industry, most of the chats I have with people about “objectives” include the “OKR” term.

Product Management Is Not Project Management

In the early days of this blog, I started writing a series of articles on what Product Management is, and what it is not, according to my experience. There’s a draft I initiated back then that I thought would be uninteresting. I’m pretty surprised that I’m now writing it, but after seeing some discussions about it in some product management communities, I felt it was time.

NPS, Doing It Right

Disclaimer I’m not a fan of NPS, for the reasons I’ll expose later in this article. It probably suffers from its fame and the common consequent pitfall where teams would rush into using it without thinking it through.

Methods: Adapt It, Don’t Adopt It

It’s been about 12 years that I’ve been working in “agile” environments. I’m getting the chance of discussing with multiple teams from multiple companies, and to try and understand how they work, and where they struggle. One thing especially seems to worry people, funnily enough: words.

The Five Stages of Remote Work

This is my personal experience of 5 years of remote work. I don’t claim everyone goes through those 5 stages, but hopefully, the lessons I learned can be helpful to someone.

The Alphabet of SaaS Start-Ups

Have you noticed? The start-up world has its own vocabulary. If you’re new at this, here’s a short lexicon, which I hope will be useful. Especially as some of it aren’t necessarily Silicon Valley buzzwords.

'Eat Your Own Dog Food' Dilemma

Eat your own dog food Product Managers like that saying.

That Podcast – My First Steps in the Start-Up World

I’ve had the honor of being invited to share some of my experiences on thatpodcast.io.

Where Strategic Partnerships and Marketplaces Fail

The strategic partnerships may sometimes sound like an El Dorado. But most of the time, you’ll be digging until you lose your nails for non-existing gold lodes.

Your Sales Don’t Know What They Are Selling

In a previous article, I wrote that your sales team doesn’t know what they are selling. By this, I mean that they most likely aren’t users of the product. They don’t know it inside out like you should, as a product manager.

Of Egos and Organizations

A few months ago, I attended Intercom’s “World Tour”. To be honest I didn’t expect this kind of content, on lessons Intercom’s team learnt while growing to the business they are today. It was filled with valuable experiences. Not necessarily on the business of creating a tool to communicate with users of SaaS businesses. Rather on the struggles of a web business trying to be good at what they do.

Organizations Are Made of Humans

In the startup world, most are aware that to become a unicorn, on top of a great idea you need some (a lot of) luck.

The Product Is the Organization

The Product is the Business. The User Problem is the Essence of the Product. Let me give it a twist: The Product is the Organization. Your team’s coordination defines your ability to deliver the Product.

Product Design Is Not Product Management

Two years ago, I wrote about what it means to work on a product rather than on a technology.

Responding to Change

This article is the fifth part of a series on: The end of the agile world hasn’t come. Read part 4 here.

Customer Collaboration

This article is the fourth part of a series on: The end of the agile world hasn’t come. Read part 3 here.

Working Software

This article is the third part of a series on: The end of the agile world hasn’t come. Read part 2 here.

Individuals and Interactions

This article is the second part of a series on: The end of the agile world hasn’t come.

The End of the Agile World Hasn’t Come

It’s amazing the amount of articles I’ve been reading lately, or the amount of people I’ve heard discussing the same thing: the end of Agile.

Continuous Performance Testing: Why You Should Care

Yesterday, I attended the eZ Conference 2015 in NYC as a speaker.

How Successful Product Managers Avoid Burnout

Really interesting article by Brian de Haaff, CEO at Aha!

Complexity to Assess Feasibility

I’ve quickly mentioned this concept in earlier posts, but I’d like to spend more time on it, as it is one of the crucial parts of Scrum, and one of the hardest to understand, for developers and for managers.

Be a Product Manager, Be an Expert

An other one of those videos which always make me laugh.

Empty Your Backlog, Delete Issues

I’ve discussed a lot about how to fill-up a backlog.

A Top-Down Approach to Product Design in Agile Environments

Product Design is an engineering process. It is not just about drawing a beautiful user interface, it is about building a solution to a user’s problem.

Why You Should Care About Your Product’s Technical Debt

Depending on your organization, as a Product Manager, you may be sitting right next to your dev team, in a different room, or even an other building.

Product Manager or Product Owner?

I’ve been attending a few meet-ups/conferences/you-name-it around product management. As I mentioned in a previous post, people in general have a rather poor understanding of the Product Manager’s job. And many of those meet-ups end-up redefining that job (sadly).

Getting Things Done with Scrum

This post is not about Agile. It is about getting things done.

Get Your Message Out – Watch Out for the Wording

OK, this blog is getting way too serious right now. Time for one of my favorite videos, where marketing goes wrong.

The Right Tool for the Right Task

This may sound as luxury, especially when in a start-up company, but using the right tool can save you a lot of time in organizing your work or your peers’. And when those tools are actually built to solve a specific user problem, they may even lead to serendipity. They will help you ask yourself more questions and overall improve your work.

Product vs Technology

Don’t get me wrong. This post is not about a fight between development and product management. Product and Technology actually walk hand-in-hand and rely on each other.

Know Your Product – Pitch It

Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.