Agile • 9 min read A Product Management Skills Map For Product Owners (#1 of 3) This is the first of three linked posts revisiting the product owner /agile product manager challenge: two similarly named roles…
Jobs • 4 min read Advice to the Joblorn I share a lot of informal advice about product management/marketing jobs, start-up culture and skills development. Here are mash-ups…
Market Thinking • 4 min read What’s Your Strategic App? If your company is in the software business, then you know which applications are strategic: the ones you sell to…
Organizations • 2 min read A Director-Level Thought Experiment Imagine that you’re the Director of Product Management at a commercial software company (i.e. one that builds and…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Three Product Challenges for Entrepreneurs (Stanford) Three perennial challenges for entrepreneurs and start-up founders are (1) seriously listening to their markets, (2) building customer-side savings/ROI…
Agile • 2 min read Six Ways Product Managers Can Help Their Agile Development Teams (and vice versa) I had a chance to lead two discussions last week at an innovation conference organized by Pitney Bowes. One session…
Jobs • 1 min read “Getting Promoted” Talk at SV Product Camp ’13 This year’s Silicon Valley Product Camp (the sixth!) again drew record crowds of product managers and product marketers to…
Organizations • 5 min read Dog Whistles and the Myth of R&D Slack There’s a dog whistle problem with critical phrases that Engineering VPs (and product managers) repeatedly speak but which often…
Jobs • 4 min read Notes from the Unicorn Hiring Front I spent part of last week interviewing product management candidates on behalf of a client far from Silicon Valley. This…
Jobs • 3 min read What Hiring Managers are Looking for in Product Management Candidates A question that I get every week is “how do I get my first tech product management job?” See old…
Market Thinking • 3 min read 4 1/2 Mac Productivity Products that Don’t Suck I have a complex set of office productivity needs, and struggle to find products (services) that fit my particular situation.…
Jobs • 6 min read B2B SaaS Companies Need Behavioral Expertise [http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgilbert](co-written with Scott Gilbert [http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgilbert], long-time consulting partner and…