• 1 min read How Agile Changes (and Doesn’t Change) What Product Managers Do Rich Mironov led a November 18th session on agile product management for the Norcal BMA. What: “How Agile Changes (and…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Santa Clara MBA Lecture on PM and NPD Prof. Kumar Sarangee [http://www.scu.edu/business/marketing/faculty/sarangee.cfm] of Santa Clara’s Leavey School of Business…
Agile • 3 min read A Journey of 1000 Miles is Still 1000 Miles Long It’s easy to confuse actual progress with intentions to make progress. Why point out the obvious? I’ve just…
Agile • 3 min read Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap Recent conversations at several clients highlight an often-repeated set of magical thinking: beliefs by internal clients that development resources are…
Agile • 2 min read “What If Dev Doesn’t Think Product Mgmt Represents Customers?” Recently, I put up a small assessment tool for product management teams. This tool is intended to generate discussion and…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Metrics and More Metrics Continuing a discussion that was raised in a recent discussion between Tom Grant and Saeed Khan where they (we) made…
Organizations • 1 min read Product Management Assessment Tool PM leaders, such as VPs or Director of Product Management, worry about the health of their teams and processes, not…
Market Thinking • 2 min read Very simple customer savings/ROI template One of the first things I ask about with a new product team is “how will a customer justify paying…
• 2 min read P-Camp ‘10: Thinking Like an Agile Product Manager At Silicon Valley P-Camp ‘10 (March 13th), Rich Mironov led a session on “How Agile Changes Waterfall PM Processes and…
Organizations • 2 min read Third Annual Silicon Valley Product Camp The third annual Silicon Valley Product Camp (aka P-Camp) was the largest gathering of product managers ever! 550 product managers…
Market Thinking • 2 min read Market Facts, Judgment, Fallibility and Ownership Or how I learned to stop worrying and love market uncertainty. Every few weeks, I find myself itching to play…
Jobs • 1 min read A great SVPMA talk: "How To Get That Next PM Job" On March 5th, Shreyas Doshi had the SVPMA [http://svpma.org/] podium for a talk on “How To Get That…