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…
Market Thinking • 6 min read Panning for Gold in the Input Stream As a product manager, you’re constantly getting input from customers, prospects, salespeople, company executives, developers, user groups, surveys, tweets,…
Agile • 2 min read Managing the Unmanageable I’ve had the great pleasure of reading an early copy of “Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools and Insights for…
Organizations • 1 min read Asking for input: PM Directors and VPs I’ve been thinking for a long time about challenges in running a product management group – that is, managing product…
Market Thinking • 4 min read 4 Mistakes that Product Executives Should Avoid I spent some time this week with an executive who’s taking on a VP Products (VPP) role for the…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Video: Product Management and Startups In this video Magnus Billgren (of Tolpagorni [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&…
Agile • 4 min read Strategically Clogged Backlogs Among the urgent calls from software teams to me for interim product leadership is a variety that I call “systemic…
Agile • 1 min read Video: Agile Product Mgmt challenges The second video (of five) in Tolpagorni's [https://www.tolpagorni.com/] product leadership series: Magnus Billgren and Rich…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Product Management Essentials for ProJECT Managers Rich was June’s guest speaker for PMI Silicon Valley, our local branch of the Project Management Institute. PMI-SV: ProDUCT…
Jobs • 5 min read Painters, Portraits, Software Architects I’ve been tuning an analogy about painters for the last few months, which has become my litmus test for…
• 1 min read StartUP SF: Defining Product Management I was pleased to lead the discussion at the StartUP Product Talk [http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Product-Talks/events/58743982/] on…