Stone Soup and Leadership
I just gave a copy of a children’s book called Stone Soup
[http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Soup-Aladdin-Picture-Books/dp/0689711034]…
Product Management
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Bangalore product tour (Feb 2015)
Hosted by Confianzys [http://www.confianzys.com/], I visited Bangalore from
19Feb to 26Feb for a combination of workshops, public…
Who Is Your Internal Customer for Innovation?
Imagine that you’re a tech company executive setting up an innovation program.
Most of your initial focus is on…
“Free” Sells (Business Model Required)
I spent a week in early December with the Brainmates team in Sydney and Melbourne Australia, waving the flag for…
Conway’s Law for Product Organizations
Conway’s Law is an old but useful idea: the organizational structure of software development teams is reflected in the…
Product Manager Shortage: Suddenly Sexy?
At the moment I post this, there are 1839 open product management jobs in San
Francisco/Silicon Valley. (Check here…
Good, Better, Best (Product Camp Seattle)
I was excited to deliver a keynote at Product Camp Seattle
Where: Russell Investments Center, 1301 Second Ave, Seattle
When:…
Mentoring Product Managers: Case Method as Well as Tools
I worry about how we grow product managers. For me, it’s more about mentoring
than in-class lectures and templates.…
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…
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…
The Power of a Few Customer Calls
{I recently had a long chat with a mentee who’s just moved into product
management from a developer role.…