• 1 min read Podcast: “Champagne Strategy,” Innovation, and Product Growth John James produces the “Champagne Strategy” podcast, which which deconstructs world-class business strategy with a focus on growth and tech.…
Product Management • 1 min read Panel: What Does It Mean To Be An Excellent Product Leader? As part of Productboard’s Product Excellence Summit, I joined a panel discussion with John Cutler, Petra Wille and Shilpa…
Portfolio Management • 4 min read Watering Down SaaS ARR I been doing occasional product due diligence this year for a few PE/VC firms, helping them vet potential investments…
Product Management • 1 min read Getting Developers’ Buy-In on Build versus Buy Topic: Getting Developers’ Buy-In on Build versus Buy Host: Sendbird When: 22 October 2021 Recording of the webinar, PDF of…
• 1 min read Podcast: Fighting Fires in B2B Product Management Jason Knight invited me onto his One Knight in Product podcast for a wide-ranging chat about product issues and organizations.…
Mentor • 6 min read Exiting Gracefully Longevity for product executives is pretty short: typically between 2 and 2.5 years. So in the course of a…
Leadership • 8 min read The Risks of Replatforming (Or How Major Platform Migrations Really Happen) Many companies have replatforming efforts underway. Architectures get old, new kinds of partners…
Product Management • 1 min read What Product Leaders Do (Keynote) PlatoHQ’s Elevate Summit for engineering and product leaders was Sept 14/15/16. I gave a keynote in the…
Agile • 1 min read Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things Product Elevation invited me to remotely join their Dublin meetup Topic: “Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things” When:…
Executives • 7 min read Selling Problems (and Then Solutions) Instead of Philosophy (this builds on my June difficult discussions post) As good product folks, we know that customers must recognize a problem…
Innovation • 1 min read Podcast: What Do You Do With a HiPPO? Rachel Obstler, VP Product at Heap, invited me in for a two-part conversation on her Product Therapy podcast. This is…
Leadership • 1 min read How to Manage Misaligned Stakeholders Topic: “How to Manage Misaligned Stakeholders” and fireside chat Where: Dan Olsen’s Lean Product meetup (online) When: Thursday, 19…