Market Thinking • 3 min read “Free” Sells (Business Model Required) I spent a week in early December with the Brainmates team in Sydney and Melbourne Australia, waving the flag for…
Agile • 4 min read Conway’s Law for Product Organizations Conway’s Law is an old but useful idea: the organizational structure of software development teams is reflected in the…
Jobs • 2 min read Product Manager Shortage: Suddenly Sexy? At the moment I post this, there are 1839 open product management jobs in San Francisco/Silicon Valley. (Check here…
Leadership • 1 min read Why Silicon Valley Continues to Rock the World (Stockholm Market Insights Conference) I was honored to keynote Tolpagorni’s annual Market Insights conference: What: Market Insights Conference Where: Stockholm, Sweden When: 13/…
Product Management • 1 min read Good, Better, Best (Product Camp Seattle) I was excited to deliver a keynote at Product Camp Seattle Where: Russell Investments Center, 1301 Second Ave, Seattle When:…
Organizations • 1 min read Why You’ll Eventually Need a Product Manager at Your Startup (SF) Event: “Products That Count” meetup When: Weds, Oct 22 Where: Yelp, 140 New Montgomery Street, SF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very early stage…
Leadership • 3 min read Mentoring Product Managers: Case Method as Well as Tools I worry about how we grow product managers. For me, it’s more about mentoring than in-class lectures and templates.…
• 1 min read Scaling Agile Product Teams (Zürich) I was thrilled to speak at the Product Management Festival in Zürich, Sept 17-18. My short talk included excerpts of…
Leadership • 3 min read 5 Things To Do In Your First Week with a New Product …and 5 more for the first month. If you’re already a product manager and stepping in to take over…
• 1 min read “Product Management is Not Optional” (ELSIG, Palo Alto) This 21 Aug 2014 talk was for SV-Forum’s Engineering Leadership SIG (EL-SIG): a monthly forum where engineering leaders share…
• 1 min read Is Product Management Obsolete? (SVPMA, Palo Alto) Topic: “Is Product Management Obsolete?” at SVPMA [http://svpma.org/] Speaker: Rich Mironov When: Weds, Aug 6, 2014 Where: JCC,…
Leadership • 1 min read Tuesday is Female Pronoun Persona Day As a long-time B2B infrastructure product manager, I’m used to thinking about my customers as guys. IT managers and…