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Why Product Request SLAs Fail
Building on a post from last July about Incompatible Worldviews…
Almost every Go-to-Market-side enterprise stakeholder I interview tells me that…
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Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and revenue software organizations. He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO.
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Product or Feature?
Stepping out of leadership challenges for a moment, here’s a practical topic that some product managers struggle with: is…
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Podcast: Core Challenges for Product Managers and Product Leaders
JJ Rorie, who runs Great Product Management and wrote Immutable, invited me to join her Product Voices podcast. We had…
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Podcast: Ethical Dilemmas in Product Management
Tami Reiss invited me to join her for a podcast episode about ethical challenges and product roles. Hightlights:
* Malicious product…
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Product Models, Service Models, and Investor Valuations
Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction…
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Podcast: How Product Management and UX Can Work Together
Podcast with Lou Rosenfeld about how UX and Product folks can work together…
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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against
Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at
least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to…
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Podcast: Customers are more forgiving about roadmaps than sales teams
I joined Phil Hornby on his Talking Roadmaps podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about purpose(s) an audiences…
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“A Working Request Process Should End in YES” (aka Incompatible Worldviews)
Enterprise Sales/Solutions teams see the world one customer at a time; Product/Development teams see cumulative market impact and aggregate technical demand. These are fundamentally in conflict...…
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Paying It Forward
We’re going through another tech pullback. I don’t know how long it will last,
or how deep it…
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Product Waste and The ROI of Discovery
Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste: development work
delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t…
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Product and Engineering Leaders: Shoulder to Shoulder (Talk)
In public — and when working with the rest of the executive team — VPs of Product Management and VPs of Engineering need to be fully aligned, aka “shoulder to shoulder.”…