Recognizing Longevity
During my recent move, I was channeling Marie Kondo [https://konmari.com/] and
cleaning out old office stuff when I…
Organizations
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Lying To Customers
I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
Delegation for Product Leaders
A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching
sessions: how much to delegate to…
Product In the Time of Cholera
I have about a dozen coaching/mentoring calls each week with product leaders, and the tone of those calls has…
Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit
A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a…
Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise
I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs
they should choose. This is…
Reorganizing Product Teams
At workshops for product leaders, we often discuss different approaches to
implementing major organizational changes within product management teams and…
Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects
Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical
statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict…
What Do Product Leaders Do?
My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing…
The Product Leadership Career Ladder
In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers)…
How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software
Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are…
My Stories Are Too Short…
I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and
their product managers) must continually experiment their…