Portfolio Thinking: A Platform Example
If you are a General Manager or Director of Product Management, you wrestle with
decisions at the portfolio level – not…
Strategy
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Product Spending and Implied Strategy
Following on my last post on product strategy/prioritization
[http://www.mironov.com/strat-priority/] and pie charts… here’s another…
Why (Agile) Program Management Tools Don’t Help (Agile) Product Managers
Agile development teams need tools for tracking the creation of software. There are dozens of well-known, purpose-built offerings including Jira,…
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…
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.…
Owning the Gap
Product managers are usually the people who “own the gap” for their specific products: identifying all of the missing or…