A Historical Take on the AI Boom
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." - possibly Mark Twain
Last week, as part of…
Innovation
43 posts
We Have To Support Every Line of Production Code Forever
In the heat of an enterprise deal moment, it’s easy to think very short-term about the long-term costs of…
AI-Washing
We’re at the top of the AI/LMM/Chatbot hype cycle.
Every biz publication is deliriously covering this. Stories…
Podcast: How to Influence Executives
For his Innovation Talks podcast, Paul Heller and I had a wide-ranging discussion about how product management influences innovation and…
Product Sprawl
There’s a pattern I sometimes see at software companies, particularly those targeting enterprises or on the long march moving…
Podcast: What Do You Do With a HiPPO?
Rachel Obstler, VP Product at Heap, invited me in for a two-part conversation
[https://heap.io/resources/product-therapy-podcast/product-therapy-what-to-do-with-a-hippo]
on…
Podcast: Why Finding Insights is So Painful
Rachel Obstler, VP Product at Heap, invited me in for a two-part conversation on
her Product Therapy podcast. This is…
We Can’t Schedule Innovation, But We Can Schedule Discovery
Every week, I talk with CEOs who tell me they want to speed up innovation. In fact, they want to…
Prioritization Beyond Algorithms
The problem of prioritization comes up in many of my coaching discussions with
product leaders, and in almost every product…
Software Economics and Slippery Slopes for Product Companies
Webinar: “Software Economics and Slippery Slopes for Product Companies”
When: January 26
Hosted by Ian Lunn of Product Focus [https:…
I’ve abandoned “MVP”
After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader
coachees to stop using the term…
Hiring a Head of Product
Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 180 consulting
clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18…