Product Management Case Study: Improving Medication Adherence Tracking Turning a Prototype Into a Scalable Solution for Pharmacists Overview Pharmacists often struggle to track whether patients are taking their medications correctly. Existing systems like Kroll and HealthWatch offer basic tools but lack usability and clarity. A fellow pharmacist, Mac Jonker, built a prototype called the Medication …

When I decided to pursue an MBA to level up my career in product management, I quickly realized traditional universities weren’t going to work for me. I looked at options in Canada, Athabasca University, the University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, but they all came with the same deal breakers: $100K price tags and rigid …

Building a product is difficult. As a product owner we do not 100% know what problem to solve that will make the desired impact. We can only take create MVPs to validate our hypothesis. The Cynefin Framework is a sense making framework that helps product owners breakdown products in a more manageable approach. Cynefin framework …

Before you start organizing your product backlog, writing your user stories or meeting your stakeholders, create a story map first. When I first started writing my stories I jumped right into writing user stories with well defined acceptance criteria. While my user stories were easy to groom, they failed to illustrate the big picture. In …

In first project I worked on, the metric we were told to focus on was the number of stories groomed in refinement, and the number of stories delivered in a sprint. At the time everyone thought it was a great idea. Story count would incentivize teams to work harder to define, groom and deliver stories …

When I first started my product career, I had the tendency to gather as much info as possible. This is the wrong approach. You will never have enough data or information to remove all ambiguity and unknown in your decisions. Your goal is to get enough information to align yourself and key stakeholders to a …