Be honest. What does your backlog look like right now? If you’re like most Product Managers, it’s probably become a massive heap of ideas, feature requests, tasks, and bug fixes. The idea of going through it makes you cringe. How can you clean and prioritize your backlog to make sure…

I loved the products, but these three key factors really got me excited about joining the Lattice team. I was a massive champion of the Lattice products at my previous organization (spoiler alert — still am now that I work here!). My colleagues often joked that “Melissa loves three things: chocolate, cats, and Lattice,” and those who used Lattice understood why. …

Its been a few months (….8) since my last Medium post. I’ve been in the process of transitioning organizations and am lucky enough to now be on the product team at Lattice, a company that I’ve dreamed about joining for the past 3 years. …

A quick Google search of “Product Lifecycle” usually brings up that chart you might have seen once in school. This lifecycle encompasses four stages: Development (or Introduction), Growth, Maturity, and Decline. That first stage, development, is where engineering, product, and design teams create products. Yet, there’s not much information available…

Several years ago I made the shift from D&I to I&D when talking about inclusion and diversity in the workplace. Both at the office and in my day-to-day life I was hearing heated discussion about nomenclature of inclusion, diversity, and equity. Which of these should be emphasized in mentality and…

Below is a list of resources for folks who are interested in or new to product. See below my quick thoughts on takeaway for getting a PM role and also what people don’t tell you about being a PM followed by resources to check out if of interest! While being…

I have searched for information on the Group Product Manager (GPM) role and responsibilities a number of times and the only article that I have found to be helpful is the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG — Marty Cagan’s organization) article on “The GPM role”. This post is helpful but…

While there are a number of articles about how to groom your backlog and conduct Sprint planning from the perspective of prioritization, I haven’t found a comprehensive checklist of all of the steps that scrum, Product and development/engineering teams need to take for the full management of a Sprint. …

There are lists and articles across the internet of the best software products for product teams. …