Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things
Product Elevation invited me to remotely join their Dublin meetup Topic: “Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things” When:…
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I’ve abandoned “MVP”
After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term…
How Agile + Product Management helps build the RIGHT things the RIGHT Way
What: Enterprise Agile San Francisco Bay Area Meetup Topic: “Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things; Agile Helps Us…
My Stories Are Too Short…
I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their…
IoT Product Podcast: You Can’t Outsource Strategy
Daniel Elizalde focuses on product management tools and training for IoT and also offers a top-rated in-person course at Stanford.…
Product Spending and Implied Strategy
Following on my last post on product strategy/prioritization and pie charts… here’s another way to apply the same…
Prioritization Requires Strategy
I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director of Product Management at a company…
Conway’s Law for Product Organizations
Conway’s Law is an old but useful idea: the organizational structure of software development teams is reflected in the…
Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical
As deeply data-driven, analytical product managers (or product owners or business analysts or development leads), we’d like to pretend…
We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here
When software companies are short of developers (or architects or test automation engineers or DevOps experts or technical writers or…
Roadmap Process or Roadmap Results?
Listening to concerns from a client about an unsatisfying roadmapping process… his main issue was wanting a better roadmap: one…
5 Market-Facing Skills for (Some) Agile Product Owners
This completes a long three-post series (1,2) proposing a skills model for product owners, partly borrowed from market-facing product…