Product Management • 1 min read Podcast… “The Rich Mironov Hypothesis: Great Product Leadership is Both Subtle and Slow to Pay Off” H2R Product Science‘s Holly Hester-Reilly produces a Product Science Podcast which covers a range of topics around product experiments,…
Agile • 6 min read 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…
Innovation • 7 min read Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Many CEOs tell…
Innovation • 5 min read What Do Product Leaders Worry About? (Survey) I spend much of my time coaching product leaders: folks who manage teams of product managers and developer+designer+product…
Leadership • 7 min read “I’ll Quit Unless…” (This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of problematic communications. Not everyone on our…
Innovation • 16 min read The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development Most product companies have a few things in their roadmaps that are specifically for single customers – I call these sales…
Innovation • 5 min read How to Make Time for Customer Interviews & Validation I got a lot of good responses from this recent post about the need to frequently talk directly with real…
Leadership • 5 min read Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management? I’ve been mulling this for a while, recently prompted by thoughts from Josh Robb [https://twitter.com/josh_robb]…
Product Management • 8 min read Understanding Enterprise Product Companies I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. Here…
Product Management • 1 min read Understanding Enterprise Product Companies (Video) What: Understanding Enterprise Product Companies Host: Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley [http://www.meetup.com/lean-product/] meetup When:…
Product Management • 1 min read Dublin: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking Topic: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking Where:Product Tank Dublin [https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Dublin/events/248435992/] Hosted…
Innovation • 7 min read Talking Directly with (Real) Customers I speak/write incessantly about the importance of product managers talking directly with their users and buyers (collectively “customers”), not…