Agile • 2 min read Managing the Unmanageable I’ve had the great pleasure of reading an early copy of “Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools and Insights for…
Organizations • 1 min read Asking for input: PM Directors and VPs I’ve been thinking for a long time about challenges in running a product management group – that is, managing product…
Market Thinking • 4 min read 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…
Agile • 4 min read Strategically Clogged Backlogs Among the urgent calls from software teams to me for interim product leadership is a variety that I call “systemic…
Agile • 1 min read Video: Agile Product Mgmt challenges The second video (of five) in Tolpagorni's [https://www.tolpagorni.com/] product leadership series: Magnus Billgren and Rich…
Jobs • 5 min read Painters, Portraits, Software Architects I’ve been tuning an analogy about painters for the last few months, which has become my litmus test for…
Agile • 4 min read Measuring Product Managers (in Swedish or English) I’m back from a week of product management workshops and seminars in Sweden, including a Product Leadership event hosted…
Jobs • 4 min read What’s A Vice President of Product Management? My last two posts were about getting into product management and the climb to Director. This third post asks how…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Dublin’s Software Pioneers [http://www.dit.ie/]I had a chance to spend a week with some of Dublin’s software thought leaders,…
Jobs • 4 min read Moving Up To Director In the second of three posts about the product management hierarchy, we’ll focus on technology product managers (PMs) who’…
Jobs • 3 min read Getting Your First Product Management Job Looking over dozens of discussions, presentations and Quora threads from the last few months, a frequent question has been “How…
Organizations • 1 min read Santa Clara MBA Lecture on Product Mgmt Prof. Kumar Sarangee [http://www.scu.edu/business/marketing/faculty/sarangee.cfm] of Santa Clara’s Leavey School of Business…