Stone Soup and Leadership
I just gave a copy of a children’s book called Stone Soup
[http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Soup-Aladdin-Picture-Books/dp/0689711034]…
Leadership
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Who Is Your Internal Customer for Innovation?
Imagine that you’re a tech company executive setting up an innovation program.
Most of your initial focus is on…
Why Silicon Valley Continues to Rock the World (Stockholm Market Insights Conference)
I was honored to keynote Tolpagorni’s annual Market Insights conference:
What: Market Insights Conference
Where: Stockholm, Sweden
When: 13/…
Mentoring Product Managers: Case Method as Well as Tools
I worry about how we grow product managers. For me, it’s more about mentoring
than in-class lectures and templates.…
5 Things To Do In Your First Week with a New Product
…and 5 more for the first month.
If you’re already a product manager and stepping in to take over…
Tuesday is Female Pronoun Persona Day
As a long-time B2B infrastructure product manager, I’m used to thinking about my
customers as guys. IT managers and…
Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical
As deeply data-driven, analytical product managers (or product owners or
business analysts or development leads), we’d like to pretend…
We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here
When software companies are short of developers (or architects or test
automation engineers or DevOps experts or technical writers or…
Motivating Development Teams
I just had a really interesting working session with an LA-area product
management team about how to motivate developers. Rather…
What kind of politics is involved in a product manager’s job?
I love Quora [http://www.quora.com/Rich-Mironov/answers], so spend a fair amount
of time there. This particular Q&…
Get a Mentor, Be a Mentor
There’s been a lot of good chatter in the PM-osphere about the need for
mentoring. Getting your first product…
Roadmap Process or Roadmap Results?
Listening to concerns from a client about an unsatisfying roadmapping process…
his main issue was wanting a better roadmap: one…