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The Accidental Agilist
Over the last few months, we’ve repeatedly heard about product managers who come
back from customer visits or vacations…
Richard Mironov
Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and revenue software organizations. He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO.
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A Planetary View of Agile Product Management
Product management is involved with most internal groups, but not equally and not all at the same time. PMs need…
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Grocers and Chefs: Software Service Models
This article captured an April 2007 talk I did at SVPMA [http://www.svpma.org].
The original slide deck is…
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Service Revenue and Upsell Marketing
Much of my consulting lately involves on-demand services (aka software-as-a-service, or “SaaS”). I’m seeing ever-growing interest from business customers…
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Burning Your Boats
I spent 2006 consulting to small tech companies, including seven months as an interim executive. I also nearly co-founded a…
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Crowding Out Tech Support
This week, there’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere and popular press about “crowdsourcing” — empowering crowds of…
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Avoiding the Post-Course Correction
As early as 1961, Soviet and American space scientists planned for mid-course corrections: those tiny bursts of rocket power designed…
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Owning the Gap
Product managers are usually the people who “own the gap” for their specific products: identifying all of the missing or…
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Open Source: Tree Museums
2005 was a great year for open source developers and solutions, with a dramatic boost in credibility, tools and respect.…
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Defensive Processes
New ventures begin with an entirely empty slate: no products, no customers, no desks, no organization charts, no established procedures…
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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…
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Product Management is Inherently Political
Recently, I had lunch with a bright young product manager trying to perfect the process for deciding which features to…