A Quick Exercise of Viewpoints
I’m building out some team-building exercises for software executives…
appreciate any comments or test drives.
Below are two cards…
Leadership
161 posts
What We Need in a VP of Product Management
A lot of product management writing is about the individual product manager
(PM), with emphasis on tools, lean start-up models…
The Surprise We Can See Coming
A phrase has been popping into my head at recent client workshops. While
emphasizing the need to think ahead, especially…
Delegate, Trust, Verify, Protect
There’s an infinitely long list of things that product managers ‘should do.’
Take a look at any product management…
Joblorn: Grumpy About Unfunded Projects
{Blended from several recent “Joblorn” questions. If you’re not sure this was
yours, it probably was.}
Rich,
I’m…
Product Management Skills For Non-Revenue Product Owners (#2 of 3)
In an earlier [http://www.mironov.com/pm-skills4po/] post, we laid out a
framework for agile software development projects (internally…
A Product Management Skills Map For Product Owners (#1 of 3)
This is the first of three linked posts revisiting the product owner /agile
product manager challenge: two similarly named roles…
A Director-Level Thought Experiment
Imagine that you’re the Director of Product Management at a commercial software
company (i.e. one that builds and…
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…
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…
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…
Strategically Clogged Backlogs
Among the urgent calls from software teams to me for interim product leadership
is a variety that I call “systemic…