5 Things To Do In Your First Week with a New Product
…and 5 more for the first month.
If you’re already a product manager and stepping in to take over…
Organizations
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Tuesday is Female Pronoun Persona Day
As a long-time B2B infrastructure product manager, I’m used to thinking about my
customers as guys. IT managers and…
Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical
As deeply data-driven, analytical product managers (or product owners or
business analysts or development leads), we’d like to pretend…
We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here
When software companies are short of developers (or architects or test
automation engineers or DevOps experts or technical writers or…
What kind of politics is involved in a product manager’s job?
I love Quora [http://www.quora.com/Rich-Mironov/answers], so spend a fair amount
of time there. This particular Q&…
Get a Mentor, Be a Mentor
There’s been a lot of good chatter in the PM-osphere about the need for
mentoring. Getting your first product…
Roadmap Process or Roadmap Results?
Listening to concerns from a client about an unsatisfying roadmapping process…
his main issue was wanting a better roadmap: one…
A Quick Exercise of Viewpoints
I’m building out some team-building exercises for software executives…
appreciate any comments or test drives.
Below are two cards…
What We Need in a VP of Product Management
A lot of product management writing is about the individual product manager
(PM), with emphasis on tools, lean start-up models…
The Surprise We Can See Coming
A phrase has been popping into my head at recent client workshops. While
emphasizing the need to think ahead, especially…
Delegate, Trust, Verify, Protect
There’s an infinitely long list of things that product managers ‘should do.’
Take a look at any product management…
JobLorn: Missing My Former Product Segment
Dear JobLorn: I have a complicated relationship with my ex-company. We had a bad
breakup about a year ago, and…