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…
Product Management
179 posts
“Why I’m Passionate About Product Management” (PCamp SF Keynote)
A lighthearted pictorial keynote from Product Camp San Francisco (12 Oct 2013).
Since we typically talk about wearing lots of…
5 Market-Facing Skills for (Some) Agile Product Owners
This completes a long three-post series (1
[http://www.mironov.com/pm-skills4po/],2 [https://www.mironov.com/pmskills2/])
proposing a…
Joblorn: Grumpy About Unfunded Projects
{Blended from several recent “Joblorn” questions. If you’re not sure this was
yours, it probably was.}
Rich,
I’m…
Product Management Skills For Non-Revenue Product Owners (#2 of 3)
In an earlier [http://www.mironov.com/pm-skills4po/] post, we laid out a
framework for agile software development projects (internally…
Lies, Boundary Cases and Checking Our Work
I’ve been doing some research into marketing automation solutions over the last
month, both for myself and for a…
A Product Management Skills Map For Product Owners (#1 of 3)
This is the first of three linked posts revisiting the product owner /agile
product manager challenge: two similarly named roles…
Advice to the Joblorn
I share a lot of informal advice about product management/marketing jobs,
start-up culture and skills development. Here are mash-ups…
What’s Your Strategic App?
If your company is in the software business, then you know which applications
are strategic: the ones you sell to…
A Director-Level Thought Experiment
Imagine that you’re the Director of Product Management at a commercial software
company (i.e. one that builds and…
Six Ways Product Managers Can Help Their Agile Development Teams (and vice versa)
I had a chance to lead two discussions last week at an innovation conference
organized by Pitney Bowes. One session…
Dog Whistles and the Myth of R&D Slack
There’s a dog whistle problem with critical phrases that Engineering VPs (and product managers) repeatedly speak but which often…