Product Sprawl
There’s a pattern I sometimes see at software companies, particularly those targeting enterprises or on the long march moving…
Innovation
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Podcast: What Do You Do With a HiPPO?
Rachel Obstler, VP Product at Heap, invited me in for a two-part conversation on her Product Therapy podcast. This is…
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 We…
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…
Podcast: Bridging the Product/Engineering Gap
I was thrilled to join Marcus Blankenship for this episode of his podcast. Marcus is a long-time coach and champion…
Business Cases Are Stories About Money
Last week, I had three separate conversations with VPs of Product about business cases… initially framed as “do you have…
Nandini Jammi and Check My Ads
I’ve been following Nandini Jammi’s truth-affirming work at Sleeping Giants for the last four years, which is suddenly…
Product In the Time of Cholera
I have about a dozen coaching/mentoring calls each week with product leaders, and the tone of those calls has…