Innovation • 6 min read Business Cases Are Stories About Money Last week, I had three separate conversations with VPs of Product about business cases… initially framed as “do you have…
Innovation • 7 min read 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…
Leadership • 4 min read Product In the Time of Cholera I have about a dozen coaching/mentoring calls each week with product leaders, and the tone of those calls has…
Innovation • 1 min read Product Experience Podcast: The Product Mensch Podcast: “The Product Mensch – Rich Mironov on The Product Experience” When: July 17, 2019 Listen on Mind The Product [https:…
Innovation • 1 min read Cambridge: Software Pricing Demystified (BoS Europe) What: Business of Software [https://businessofsoftware.org/] Conference Talk: “Software Pricing Demystified” When: 11-12 April 2019 Where: Churchill College, University…
Leadership • 10 min read 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…
Agile • 6 min read My Stories Are Too Short… I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their…
Innovation • 1 min read Rosenfeld Podcast: Managing Multiple Points of View Rosenfeld Media [https://rosenfeldmedia.com/] publishes short and practical books on user experience, organizes the Enterprise Experience [https://rosenfeldmedia.com/…
Innovation • 1 min read Auckland: “Saying No to Good Ideas” Product Tank Auckland [https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckland/events/258411261/] and Xero [https://www.xero.com/] hosted a talk with…
Innovation • 7 min read Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Many CEOs tell…
Innovation • 5 min read What Do Product Leaders Worry About? (Survey) I spend much of my time coaching product leaders: folks who manage teams of product managers and developer+designer+product…
Innovation • 16 min read The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development Most product companies have a few things in their roadmaps that are specifically for single customers – I call these sales…