Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies
We’re in the Silly Season: companies of all sizes are doing annual planning — intending to lock down 12 months…
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AI-Washing
We’re at the top of the AI/LMM/Chatbot hype cycle.
Every biz publication is deliriously covering this. Stories…
Moving from Services to Products
I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies. (See this…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Podcast: Ethical Dilemmas in Product Management
Tami Reiss invited me to join her for a podcast episode about ethical challenges and product roles. Hightlights:
* Malicious product…
“A Working Request Process Should End in YES” (aka Incompatible Worldviews)
Enterprise Sales/Solutions teams see the world one customer at a time; Product/Development teams see cumulative market impact and aggregate technical demand. These are fundamentally in conflict...…
Product and Engineering Leaders: Shoulder to Shoulder (Talk)
In public — and when working with the rest of the executive team — VPs of Product Management and VPs of Engineering need to be fully aligned, aka “shoulder to shoulder.”…
Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem
Product and engineering leaders tend to be analytical, and we think of prioritization as an algorithmic problem. Unfortunately, other execs see a different kind of problem...…