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Ellen Perl

Ellen Perl

With 10+ years in product management, I've excelled as a solo product manager at startups and led high-performing product teams, driving significant growth and innovation.

📍 New Hampshire

ProductFTW #15: User Stories

A user story is a short description of a product feature from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, typically a user or customer of the system. It’s a formula that keeps your product's who, what, and why top of mind for everyone involved in its development.

ProductFTW #12: Determining the Problem to be Solved

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been chatting about how to influence others and get more work done when you know the problems you’re trying to solve and the things you’re trying to build. Today, we’re diving into some foundations, before you’re even ready to

ProductFTW #10: How to Get the Team to Estimate

In ProductFTW #9, we explored how accurate estimations can prevent burnout and frustration. It's important to clarify from the outset that, as product managers, we don't perform the estimations ourselves; rather, it's the engineers who estimate the time and effort required for tasks. Our

ProductFTW #8: Is it Wrong to Use AI to Assist with Product Management?

We’ll explore how product management will evolve with AI, if it will replace product managers, and if relying on AI to perform job functions is ethically questionable.

ProductFTW #6: How to Effectively Communicate as a Product Manager

So, how did I improve my communication to a commanding-a-room level? Practice. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and communication is something that needs to be practiced almost every day. Here are ways you can practice...