Jobs • 1 min read “Getting Promoted” Talk at SV Product Camp ’13 This year’s Silicon Valley Product Camp (the sixth!) again drew record crowds of product managers and product marketers to…
Organizations • 5 min read Dog Whistles and the Myth of R&D Slack There’s a dog whistle problem with critical phrases that Engineering VPs (and product managers) repeatedly speak but which often…
Jobs • 4 min read Notes from the Unicorn Hiring Front I spent part of last week interviewing product management candidates on behalf of a client far from Silicon Valley. This…
Jobs • 3 min read What Hiring Managers are Looking for in Product Management Candidates A question that I get every week is “how do I get my first tech product management job?” See old…
Market Thinking • 3 min read 4 1/2 Mac Productivity Products that Don’t Suck I have a complex set of office productivity needs, and struggle to find products (services) that fit my particular situation.…
Jobs • 6 min read B2B SaaS Companies Need Behavioral Expertise [http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgilbert](co-written with Scott Gilbert [http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgilbert], long-time consulting partner and…
Market Thinking • 6 min read Panning for Gold in the Input Stream As a product manager, you’re constantly getting input from customers, prospects, salespeople, company executives, developers, user groups, surveys, tweets,…
Agile • 2 min read Managing the Unmanageable I’ve had the great pleasure of reading an early copy of “Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools and Insights for…
Organizations • 1 min read Asking for input: PM Directors and VPs I’ve been thinking for a long time about challenges in running a product management group – that is, managing product…
Market Thinking • 4 min read 4 Mistakes that Product Executives Should Avoid I spent some time this week with an executive who’s taking on a VP Products (VPP) role for the…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Video: Product Management and Startups In this video Magnus Billgren (of Tolpagorni [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&…
Agile • 4 min read Strategically Clogged Backlogs Among the urgent calls from software teams to me for interim product leadership is a variety that I call “systemic…