10 days ago I celebrated my birthday, marking my transition into the later years of my 30s. Since my birthday falls on the 1st of November, 10 out of the 12 months of the year have already passed, and I’ve made it a tradition to reflect on my personal journey and jot down some thoughts. …
Author archives: Franz Vitulli
Don’t just listen, but engage with your customers
As product managers, we are the conduits through which ideas flow, evolve, and ultimately materialise into tangible solutions. A key way to generate ideas is to connect to our customers and hear them talk freely about their problems. Customer conversations, unfiltered and unrestrained, can be a goldmine for product managers. When customers discuss their pain …
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Decision Making in Enterprise Product Management: 3 Common Challenges
Product Management for the Enterprise comes with its fair share of challenges, especially when it comes to decision making. Here are three common hurdles I’ve been thinking about recently, with some solutions. Balancing diverse stakeholder needs Enterprise products often have a wide range of stakeholders. Internally, Sales and Marketing teams, engineers, support / CX, the …
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Thirty-Seven
It’s my birthday today, and I’m fully into my late 30s now. As always, because my birthday is on the 1st of November and this means that 10 out of the 12 months of the year are in the rear-view mirror, on this day I like to sit down and write some personal reflections. On …
A Product Manager’s Guide to doing 1:1 Meetings with Engineers
A healthy relationship between Product people and engineers is critical to building successful products. But take a look at any Product community—from r/ProductManagement to any Product conference—and you’ll see that this is still one of the most requested, debated, asked-about topics. This tells us it’s a problem for a lot of Product people. What I, …
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Thirty-Six
Another trip around the sun is done, and what a ride this has been. In the last 12 months I’ve managed, with my amazing better half Stef alongside me—to turn quite a few things around. While the pandemic isn’t over yet, we can say it seems like we made it through the worst. Our daughter …
Thirty-Five
I’m officially not in my early thirties anymore, and it’s fine. I’m in good health—which is great, considering the reality of 2020. I’m surrounded by the love of a wonderful wife and the best daughter a father can wish for. It’s super busy at work, now that I manage the whole roadmap of our monolingual …
A new chapter: Product Manager at Oxford University Press
After three months of mini-retirement, or funemployment if you like the word (I do!), words can’t explain how honoured I am to tell the world that I’m the new Product Manager at the Oxford University Press. Starting today, I’ll be building products for the biggest university press in the world, whose history can be traced …
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This site has now a Now page
People often ask me what I’m up to, so I thought it was a good idea to join the /now page movement started by Derek Sivers and provide this website with a /now page. Find it here ? franzvitulli.com/now A simple link, easy to remember and easy to type, that brings you to a nearly-always …
Product management tools at WordCamp London 2019
WordCamp London is an event I feel very attached to. It’s my local WordPress conference. It gave me one of my first public speaking opportunities back in 2015. If you have been to a WordCamp London in the past, you might have seen me running around with big boxes, or behind the registration desk. Last …
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