Does Your Product Suck?
It’s been a tough week on the technical front, with a variety of products
failing to perform their core…
Skills You Need to Succeed as a PM (SVPMA Panel)
SVPMA marked its 10-year anniversary with a panel discussion on the key role that product managers play in today’s…
Leadership, Trust and Pronouns
I’m struck by the words people choose, and by how their pronouns reflect their management style. In particular, I’…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
Metrics and More Metrics
Continuing a discussion that was raised in a recent discussion between Tom Grant and Saeed Khan where they (we) made…
Product Management Assessment Tool
PM leaders, such as VPs or Director of Product Management, worry about the health of their teams and processes, not…
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…
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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…
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