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…
Innovation • 7 min read Nandini Jammi and Check My Ads I’ve been following Nandini Jammi’s truth-affirming work at Sleeping Giants for the last four years, which is suddenly…
Leadership • 3 min read Recognizing Longevity During my recent move, I was channeling Marie Kondo [https://konmari.com/] and cleaning out old office stuff when I…
Jobs • 6 min read Lying To Customers I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
Product Management • 2 min read Podcast: Savvy PMs Engage All Their Audiences Sean Flaherty & Paul Gebel produce the Product Momentum podcast [https://www.productmomentum.fm/]. They invited me to join this…
Product Management • 1 min read Webinar: Creating a Thriving Product Organization Topic: Creating a Thriving Product Organization When: June 16th Co-sponsors: Pragmatic Institute [https://www.pragmaticinstitute.com/] and Product Development Days…
Jobs • 6 min read Delegation for Product Leaders A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to…
Product Management • 1 min read Webinar: Covid19’s Impact On Your Product Strategy Topic: Covid19’s Impact On Your Product Strategy When: Tuesday 12 May Hosted by: Synerzip [https://www.synerzip.com/] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
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…
Product Management • 2 min read Designing, Structuring and Leading Product Organizations (Toronto) Saeed Khan [https://transformationlabs.io/home/about-us/] and I led a one-day workshop in Toronto with insights, frameworks and tools…
Leadership • 8 min read Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a…
Leadership • 8 min read Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is…