Innovation • 6 min read We Can’t Schedule Innovation, But We Can Schedule Discovery Every week, I talk with CEOs who tell me they want to speed up innovation. In fact, they want to…
Leadership • 1 min read Managing Misaligned Stakeholders (Mind The Product APAC) Event: Mind The Product/Digital APAC [https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mtpcon/singapore/] Rich’s topic: Dealing with Misaligned Stakeholders (and…
Innovation • 4 min read Prioritization Beyond Algorithms The problem of prioritization comes up in many of my coaching discussions with product leaders, and in almost every product…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Workplace Confessions Product Collective [https://productcollective.com/]‘s Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca have turned season 10 of their Rocketship.FM podcast:…
Leadership • 4 min read Shoulder To Shoulder I talk with CPOs/VPs of Product almost every day. And with CTOs/VPs of Engineering every week. A frequent…
Leadership • 6 min read Podcast: Combining Business & Product Mindsets Christian Strunk and Alex Dapunt host the Product Bakery [https://www.product-bakery.com/] podcast. In this episode, I joined them…
Leadership • 7 min read How Product Can (and Can’t) Speed Up Development Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Maker teams (aka…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Product Leadership beyond Managing PMs Cyrus Eslamian hosts the “Product Manager Hub [https://pmhub.tech/]“ podcast. He invited me on to talk about product leadership,…
Leadership • 4 min read The Hungry Man Parable I talk with lots of executives from the go-to-market side of the house who think that building serious software is…
Agile • 4 min read I’ve abandoned “MVP” After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term…
Leadership • 2 min read Hiring a Head of Product (Video) The Business of Software [https://businessofsoftware.org/] conference team brought me back for their 2020 conference, run remotely rather than…
Innovation • 8 min read 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…