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The Chocolate Cake Problem
In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies…
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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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Interview: How to Prevent Product Waste
UserTesting's Mike Mace interviewed me for The Center for Human Insight and produced this long-form post. We covered…
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Major Migrations Are An Organizational Challenge, Not Just a Technical Challenge
I’ve sat through planning for scores of major B2B migrations, and implemented a half-dozen of my own. Usually the…
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Podcast: Agile & Sales-Led Development
I joined Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson on their No Nonsense Agile Podcast to talk about the problem with sales-led…
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Why Product Request SLAs Fail
Building on a post from last July about Incompatible Worldviews…
Almost every Go-to-Market-side enterprise stakeholder I interview tells me that…
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Product or Feature?
Stepping out of leadership challenges for a moment, here’s a practical topic that some product managers struggle with: is…
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Podcast: Core Challenges for Product Managers and Product Leaders
JJ Rorie, who runs Great Product Management and wrote Immutable, invited me to join her Product Voices podcast. We had…
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Podcast: Ethical Dilemmas in Product Management
Tami Reiss invited me to join her for a podcast episode about ethical challenges and product roles. Hightlights:
* Malicious product…
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Product Models, Service Models, and Investor Valuations
Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction…
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Podcast: How Product Management and UX Can Work Together
Podcast with Lou Rosenfeld about how UX and Product folks can work together…
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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against
Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at
least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to…
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Podcast: Customers are more forgiving about roadmaps than sales teams
I joined Phil Hornby on his Talking Roadmaps podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about purpose(s) an audiences…