Leadership • 1 min read Melbourne: Building and Scaling a Product Team Topic: Building and Scaling a Product Team Where: Zendesk, 67 Queen Street, Melbourne, AU When: Tuesday, 27 February, 6:00…
Customer Thinking • 1 min read Auckland: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking Topic: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking Where: Air New Zealand, 185 Fanshawe St, Auckland When: Tuesday, 20 February,…
Product Management • 1 min read InfoQ Podcast: Product Development/Management Trends Shane Hastie’s podcast [https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/Rich-Mironov-trends-product-development] for InfoQ covers agile culture and methods. I joined his…
Leadership • 8 min read Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and…
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…
Innovation • 1 min read Santa Clara: Certificate in Productizing Innovation What: Executive Certificate in Productizing Innovation Where: Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University When: Six day program on Sept…
Leadership • 6 min read Hearing About Accounts, Listening for Segments In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support individual customers or they support the market.…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Let’s Abandon Customers and Users I spend a lot of time sifting through documents, positioning and stories – trying to figure out who we’re talking…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Auckland: Four Laws of Tech Product Economics What: Product Management Auckland [https://www.meetup.com/Product-Management-Auckland/events/241544972/] meetup Topic: Four Laws of Tech Product Economics Where:…
Leadership • 5 min read The Software Development Deli Counter I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: How to Be Effective Without a Product Leader Steven Haines hosts Sequent Learning’s podcast. I was able to join him for this episode (#17) [https://itunes.apple.…
Leadership • 5 min read 7 Ways to Know That You Need a Head of Product Over the last year or so, I’ve seen more than a dozen companies with a meta-product management problem that…