Innovation • 4 min read Prioritization Beyond Algorithms The problem of prioritization comes up in many of my coaching discussions with product leaders, and in almost every product…
Innovation • 6 min read Business Cases Are Stories About Money Last week, I had three separate conversations with VPs of Product about business cases… initially framed as “do you have…
Leadership • 4 min read 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…
Leadership • 6 min read “My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…” (combining a series of similar conversations) Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product…
Leadership • 8 min read Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers As product managers, we worry about market results – not just successfully shipping stuff on time, but growing our product’s…
Innovation • 5 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 3) Our two previous posts noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your…
Agile • 5 min read Prioritization Requires Strategy I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director [http://www.mironov.com/director/] of…
Agile • 1 min read Video: Agile Product Mgmt challenges The second video (of five) in Tolpagorni's [https://www.tolpagorni.com/] product leadership series: Magnus Billgren and Rich…
Market Thinking • 3 min read How Well Can You Predict The Future? It’s been a very tough quarter for economic forecasters, quota-carrying sales teams and CEOs. The sudden downturn even caught…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Understanding the Opportunities of Buy-Side Economics As CEOs of our products, we product managers have a lot to do. Traditionally, this has included “build-versus-buy” decisions. The…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Open Source: Tree Museums 2005 was a great year for open source developers and solutions, with a dramatic boost in credibility, tools and respect.…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Sharks, Pilot Fish, and the Product Food Chain When you’re launching a new venture, one of your hungry competitor earliest considerations is how your innovation might fit…