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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against
Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at
least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to…
Podcast: Customers are more forgiving about roadmaps than sales teams
I joined Phil Hornby on his Talking Roadmaps podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about purpose(s) an audiences…
“A Working Request Process Should End in YES” (aka Incompatible Worldviews)
Enterprise Sales/Solutions teams see the world one customer at a time; Product/Development teams see cumulative market impact and aggregate technical demand. These are fundamentally in conflict...…
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Paying It Forward
We’re going through another tech pullback. I don’t know how long it will last,
or how deep it…
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Product Waste and The ROI of Discovery
Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste: development work
delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t…
Product and Engineering Leaders: Shoulder to Shoulder (Talk)
In public — and when working with the rest of the executive team — VPs of Product Management and VPs of Engineering need to be fully aligned, aka “shoulder to shoulder.”…
Product Management of Complex B2B Products (Software + Hardware + Services)
In this webinar, we talked about the fundamental differences between software, hardware/physical products, and services product management.…
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Panel Discussion: Time Management for Product Managers
Panel discussion on time management for product managers (sponsored by Heap)…
Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem
Product and engineering leaders tend to be analytical, and we think of prioritization as an algorithmic problem. Unfortunately, other execs see a different kind of problem...…
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Calendar Reviews
My product leader coachees and I sometimes do calendar reviews. We look at
their chock-a-block schedules, and talk about the…
Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder
This remote talk on “Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career
Ladder” was hosted by SVPMA [https://svpma.…
Product Coaching and “Show, Don’t Tell”
I sometimes find product management teams composed entirely of first-timers,
where not a single person has any previous experience as…
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