Market Thinking • 1 min read Lean Meetup: Challenges of Enterprise Product Management Palo Alto’s Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley [http://www.meetup.com/lean-product/] meetup, led by Dan Olsen,…
Leadership • 8 min read Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers As product managers, we worry about market results – not just successfully shipping stuff on time, but growing our product’s…
Innovation • 5 min read The DIY Illusion I’ve recently talked with several companies that are spending $1M/year or more to build generic software that is…
Jobs • 4 min read This Is Why I Hire First for Product Experience David Cancel’s post This Is Why I Never Hire Product Managers [https://medium.com/life-learning/this-is-why-i-never-hire-product-managers-c321ca96505b#.pb7pgy76r] on Medium…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Will 2016 Be The Year Of The Unicorn Apocalypse In Silicon Valley? Paul Glader, in a Jan 16th post on the Forbes/ Leadership blog, quotes from a discussion we had with the…
Leadership • 1 min read 2015: A Strong Product Year It’s been a stellar year for folks involved in product management, UX/design thinking, Lean, Agile, and shipping great…
Leadership • 8 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 4) We’ve laid out three fundamental facts about commercial software: your development team will never be big enough; all of…
Innovation • 5 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 3) Our two previous posts noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your…
Innovation • 7 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 2) Post #1 noted that your development team will never, ever, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams.…
Leadership • 4 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 1) Newton taught us that gravity’s not just a good idea, it’s the law. I’ve spent a lot…
Jobs • 5 min read 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…
Innovation • 6 min read Portfolio Thinking: A Platform Example If you are a General Manager or Director of Product Management, you wrestle with decisions at the portfolio level – not…