6 min read Value Engineering and Build vs. Rent I’ve been writing lately about product waste: building features or capabilities that aren’t used or don't…
Executives • 9 min read Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and…
Organizations • 5 min read What Do We Owe Our Teams? Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the…
Economics • 1 min read Rochester NY: ITX Product + Design Conference 2023 Where: Rochester, NY in person When: June 22/23 Event details here This conference celebrated the power of UX design,…
Innovation • 1 min read Podcast: How to Influence Executives For his Innovation Talks podcast, Paul Heller and I had a wide-ranging discussion about how product management influences innovation and…
Jobs • 4 min read Thoughts for In-The-Job-Market Product Leaders I’ve had a lot of discussion over the last few months with product leaders looking for their next opportunity.…
Economics • 1 min read Webinar: Reducing Product Waste (and achieving great outcomes) When: Thursday 11 May at 17:00 UK / 18.00 CEST / 12:00 EDT / 09:00 PDT Host: Product Focus…
Organizations • 11 min read The Chocolate Cake Problem In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies…
Economics • 1 min read Interview: How to Prevent Product Waste UserTesting's Mike Mace interviewed me for The Center for Human Insight and produced this long-form post. We covered…
Product Strategy • 9 min read Major Migrations Are An Organizational Challenge, Not Just a Technical Challenge I’ve sat through planning for scores of major B2B migrations, and implemented a half-dozen of my own. Usually the…
Agile • 1 min read Podcast: Agile & Sales-Led Development I joined Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson on their No Nonsense Agile Podcast to talk about the problem with sales-led…
Customer Thinking • 5 min read 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…