I had a chance to spend a week with some of Dublin’s software thought leaders, including two days teaching in a Postgraduate Diploma Program in Product Management offered by the Dublin Institute of Technology and Software Skillnet. In addition, the Irish Software Association generously hosted a workshop and lecture, where we talked about technology management, agile, and building commercially successful products. Continue reading
Prof. Kumar Sarangee of Santa Clara’s Leavey School of Business invited Rich Mironov to be a guest lecturer for his Product Market Planning and Strategy class. SCU’s Evening MBA program attracts some of the brightest students from the Valley, with a tradition of providing leadership back to technology companies. Continue reading
Rich Mironov presented a webinar on what agile development managers (and others) need to know about product management in general, PM in an agile context, and how this aligns with scrum’s concept of product owners.
Recently, I put up a small assessment tool for product management teams. This tool is intended to generate discussion and highlight areas for team improvement. Several PMs had follow-up comments and questions along the lines of “what should we do if we’re scored ourselves poorly on a specific item?”
There are no generic prescriptions for improvement, especially in product management. It’s worth drilling into an individual item or two, though, and imagining how we might analyze the situation and take corrective action. Continue reading