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The Unabated PM

Brennan Collins

Product executive, educator, speaker, and coach helping product managers break free from delivery mode and become the strategic leaders their companies need.

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Leaving your stakeholder-driven roadmap behind

When a product manager named Kiran came to me for advice, he had almost a decade in the job: startups, consulting, product ownership at IBM, big-time projects with Apple. On every dimension I could observe, he was good at the job too. He could deliver. He could handle stakeholders. And he could run a meeting without people checking their phones. Then I asked him how he decided what to build next, what goes into the roadmap. He described a process that started with what the client asked for...

about 2 months ago • 4 min read

A product manager that I coached on her resume and product-thinking got an amazing job at Mastercard, a global payments company. It was a huge step up for her, going from product owner-style delivery work to deciding how to scale a new real-time payments offering into other markets. She was very proud and a bit nervous. Six weeks later, she came back to me with a question that sounded less about product and more about confidence. "How do you speak up in meetings as a new employee when you...

about 1 month ago • 4 min read

I used to think logic would sell my ideas. I’d do more research than anyone else. I’d build the business case tying every feature to impact. I’d rehearse an amazing pitch that laid it out perfectly. And I’d confidently walk into the room thinking, “This just makes sense. Anyone can see it.” But then someone would explode before I could get 3 slides into my polished presentation. They would push back hard on something minor that wasn’t even the point of what I was presenting. And now the room...

about 2 months ago • 5 min read