I’ve abandoned “MVP”
After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader
coachees to stop using the term…
Executives
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Hiring a Head of Product
Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 180 consulting
clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18…
Nandini Jammi and Check My Ads
I’ve been following Nandini Jammi’s truth-affirming work at Sleeping Giants for
the last four years, which is suddenly…
Lying To Customers
I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
Delegation for Product Leaders
A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching
sessions: how much to delegate to…
Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics?
Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, Phil Wolff and John Sebes, I’ve been thinking about tech products that are…
What Do Product Leaders Do?
My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing…
How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software
Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are…
Auckland: Product Management Leadership Games
Topic: Product Management Leadership Games
Where:Pushpay [https://pushpay.com/contact], 167 Victoria St W, Level 6,
Auckland, 1010, NZ…
“My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”
(combining a series of similar conversations)
Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product…
Hearing About Accounts, Listening for Segments
In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support individual customers or they support the market.…
7 Ways to Know That You Need a Head of Product
Over the last year or so, I’ve seen more than a dozen companies with a
meta-product management problem that…