Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy
Expanding on a recent post (Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product,…
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Podcast: Speaking the Language of C-Level Execs (Money)
Margarida Cosme Pereira, with Lisbon's Productized conference, invited me to join their podcast for a wide-ranging discussion including:…
Moving from Services to Products
I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies. (See this…
Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams
Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and…
What Do We Owe Our Teams?
Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the…
Podcast: How to Influence Executives
For his Innovation Talks podcast, Paul Heller and I had a wide-ranging discussion about how product management influences innovation and…
Thoughts for In-The-Job-Market Product Leaders
I’ve had a lot of discussion over the last few months with product leaders looking for their next opportunity.…
The Chocolate Cake Problem
In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies…
Interview: How to Prevent Product Waste
UserTesting's Mike Mace interviewed me for The Center for Human Insight and produced this long-form post. We covered…
Major Migrations Are An Organizational Challenge, Not Just a Technical Challenge
I’ve sat through planning for scores of major B2B migrations, and implemented a half-dozen of my own. Usually the…
Podcast: Agile & Sales-Led Development
I joined Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson on their No Nonsense Agile Podcast to talk about the problem with sales-led…
Podcast: Customers are more forgiving about roadmaps than sales teams
I joined Phil Hornby on his Talking Roadmaps podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about purpose(s) an audiences…