What’s Your Strategic App?
If your company is in the software business, then you know which applications
are strategic: the ones you sell to…
Market Thinking
142 posts
Three Product Challenges for Entrepreneurs (Stanford)
Three perennial challenges for entrepreneurs and start-up founders are (1)
seriously listening to their markets, (2) building customer-side savings/ROI…
Six Ways Product Managers Can Help Their Agile Development Teams (and vice versa)
I had a chance to lead two discussions last week at an innovation conference
organized by Pitney Bowes. One session…
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…
What Hiring Managers are Looking for in Product Management Candidates
A question that I get every week is “how do I get my first tech product
management job?” See old…
4 1/2 Mac Productivity Products that Don’t Suck
I have a complex set of office productivity needs, and struggle to find products
(services) that fit my particular situation.…
B2B SaaS Companies Need Behavioral Expertise
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgilbert](co-written with Scott Gilbert
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgilbert], long-time consulting partner and…
Panning for Gold in the Input Stream
As a product manager, you’re constantly getting input from customers, prospects,
salespeople, company executives, developers, user groups, surveys, tweets,…
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…
Video: Product Management and Startups
In this video Magnus Billgren (of Tolpagorni
[http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&…
Strategically Clogged Backlogs
Among the urgent calls from software teams to me for interim product leadership
is a variety that I call “systemic…
Video: Agile Product Mgmt challenges
The second video (of five) in Tolpagorni's [https://www.tolpagorni.com/] product
leadership series: Magnus Billgren and Rich…