Jobs • 5 min read Interviewing Like A Product Manager I’ve interviewed dozens of product management candidates recently, and many didn’t leave much of an impression. Here are…
• 1 min read Why You’ll Eventually Need a Product Manager at Your Startup Talk for: Early Stage Entrepreneurs & Product Managers Meetup Hosted by Oration in Foster City [https://www.google.com/maps/…
Innovation • 6 min read Portfolio Thinking: A Platform Example If you are a General Manager or Director of Product Management, you wrestle with decisions at the portfolio level – not…
• 2 min read Making The Right Strategic Choices in Product Portfolios (RallyON) Rally invited me to give this talk at their RallyON [https://www.rallydev.com/rallyon/rallyon2015] conference (Phoenix, June 15-17)…
• 1 min read Driving Strategic Choices for Agile Product Portfolios (Agile Leadership Network) Host: Tri-Valley/East Bay Agile Leadership Network [http://www.meetup.com/Tri-Valley-East-Bay-Agile-Leadership-Network/] (ALN) What: “Driving Strategic Choices for Agile Product…
Agile • 3 min read Product Spending and Implied Strategy Following on my last post on product strategy/prioritization [http://www.mironov.com/strat-priority/] and pie charts… here’s another…
Innovation • 1 min read Appallingly Unfortunate Mobile Ad The New York Times ran a heart-breaking 7500-word article [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/magazine/the-last-day-of-her-life.html?_r=…
Agile • 5 min read Prioritization Requires Strategy I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director [http://www.mironov.com/director/] of…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Why (Agile) Program Management Tools Don’t Help (Agile) Product Managers Agile development teams need tools for tracking the creation of software. There are dozens of well-known, purpose-built offerings including Jira,…
Leadership • 1 min read A Strategic Tool Chain Scott Sehlhorst [http://tynerblain.com/blog/about-the-author/], an incisive product thinker and occasional collaborator, made this strategic map of disciplines…
• 1 min read Silicon Valley View of Product Owner/Manager Challenges (Agile@Cork) What: Agile@Cork [http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Cork/] monthly meet-up Topic: “Silicon Valley View of Product Owner/Product Manager Challenges”…
Leadership • 4 min read Your Next Developer Costs $1M/Year in Revenue As tech product managers, we’re often pitching the need for larger development teams. There’s an implied revenue obligation,…