• 15 Talks, 5 Countries – Product Lessons from Speaking Internationally

    15 Talks, 5 Countries – Product Lessons from Speaking Internationally

    Over the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking at more than 15 conferences across 5 countries. Each stage, audience, and format taught me something new. Not just about public speaking, but about product mindset, agility, human connection and even myself. As product managers, we deliver clarity out of ambiguity, align stakeholders, and…

  • From Product Manager to Full-Stack Product Developer: The Future of the Role?

    From Product Manager to Full-Stack Product Developer: The Future of the Role?

    Product management has always been a role in flux: part business, part tech, part UX/UI, part strategy, part execution. It requires just enough knowledge to bridge gaps between stakeholders, but not necessarily deep expertise in any single domain. As AI, no-code/low-code tools, and the pace of product development accelerate, I believe we’re witnessing the emergence…

  • From Sprints to Self-Improvement: My Weekly Retrospective and Review Process

    From Sprints to Self-Improvement: My Weekly Retrospective and Review Process

    As a product manager, I’m used to working in iterations, breaking down work into manageable chunks, reviewing progress, and adjusting the course when needed. Over time, I realized that this structured approach from Agile frameworks (particularly Scrum) wasn’t just useful for work. It could also help me improve my personal life. This thought was actually…

  • My Simple, Low-Tech Research Workflow for Academic Writing and PhD Studies in Obsidian

    My Simple, Low-Tech Research Workflow for Academic Writing and PhD Studies in Obsidian

    In the Autumn of 2024, I enrolled in PhD studies at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade University. It’s been a long-term desire and opened many doors already – meeting interesting colleagues, learning a lot, working with world-class professors and mentors… and jumping into research and academic writing at a higher level. (Previously, I did…

  • 📣 Calling on Product Professionals – Help Science

    📣 Calling on Product Professionals – Help Science

    If you’re a product person, I need your help! 🙂 For my studies, I’m doing a survey on backlog prioritization and use of AI.
Would you have time to fill it out, and share your opinions?It will take 5 minutes or less (really). Here is the link: https://forms.gle/HwJe7gCxuhXEgA2CA

 Answers are anonymous, and Gmail may be required only…

  • Pseudocode (and Other) Poetry – an Experiment I abandoned

    Pseudocode (and Other) Poetry – an Experiment I abandoned

    In the winter of ’22, I was learning Python (trying for the N-th time), and I thought – what if we wrote poems like we write code? That’s how Pseudocode (side)project was born. As usual, I had an (overly) ambitious goal of writing a book of poems in pseudocode. (fun fact: I have a “poetic…

  • Udemy Course – 1100 students later

    Udemy Course – 1100 students later

    In early December, I wrote about working on something exciting, a Udemy course on product managing life. One month later, and it’s been a crazy ride. Basically, in 2023, I wrote a book on applying product management to personal life, and this course was based on it. I talked with a friend who told me…

  • I’m Working on Something Exciting!

    I’m Working on Something Exciting!

    Coming soon: A course on applying product management to personal life Last year, I wrote a book on applying product management to life – and now I’m preparing a course on the same topic 🙂 Sign up HERE for the waitlist if you’re interested! Whether you are involved in product management for work or not,…

  • The importance of tying KPIs to KFIs + Applying this in life

    The importance of tying KPIs to KFIs + Applying this in life

    KPIs, or Key Performance Indicators, are a measurable value that helps organizations track and assess the progress towards specific goals. In this context, KPIs are often used to evaluate the success of various processes, initiatives or products. A KPI could be average revenue per user, session duration, retention rate, cost of customer acquisition, and so…

  • Navigate Different Tasks Easier With Classes of Service

    Navigate Different Tasks Easier With Classes of Service

    Classes of service are a set of guidelines to categorize different work items based on their priority and risk level. The principles and method can nicely be applied to our private life. In kanban, classes of service (CoS) are a set of guidelines used to categorize different work items based on their priority and risk…