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…
Management
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“I’ll Quit Unless…”
(This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of
problematic communications. Not everyone on our…
How to Make Time for Customer Interviews & Validation
I got a lot of good responses from this recent post about the need to
frequently
talk directly with real…
Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions
I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways
to represent (and then present and…
Motivating Development Teams
As noted in my last post [http://www.mironov.com/responsive/], Sales and
Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently…
Organizational Thank-Yous
Thanking people for their good work is one of the most powerful, least used
tools we have at the office.…
A VP Product’s Checklist
Individual product managers drive individual products or services. VPs of
Product Management establish the broader context for getting great
products/…
Interviewing Like A Product Manager
I’ve interviewed dozens of product management candidates recently, and many
didn’t leave much of an impression. Here are…
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 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…
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…