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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
Managing the Unmanageable
I’ve had the great pleasure of reading an early copy of “Managing the
Unmanageable: Rules, Tools and Insights for…
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