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.…
Organizations
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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…
“A Working Request Process Should End in YES” (aka Incompatible Worldviews)
Enterprise Sales/Solutions teams see the world one customer at a time; Product/Development teams see cumulative market impact and aggregate technical demand. These are fundamentally in conflict...…
Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem
Product and engineering leaders tend to be analytical, and we think of prioritization as an algorithmic problem. Unfortunately, other execs see a different kind of problem...…
Product Coaching and “Show, Don’t Tell”
I sometimes find product management teams composed entirely of first-timers,
where not a single person has any previous experience as…
We’re In A Product Candidate’s Job Market
Every CPO/VP Product I talk with is in a battle for product talent. It’s even
harder than normal…
Product Sprawl
There’s a pattern I sometimes see at software companies, particularly those targeting enterprises or on the long march moving…
Exiting Gracefully
Longevity for product executives is pretty short: typically between 2 and 2.5 years. So in the course of a…