Agile • 3 min read Product Spending and Implied Strategy Following on my last post on product strategy/prioritization [http://www.mironov.com/strat-priority/] and pie charts… here’s another…
Agile • 5 min read Prioritization Requires Strategy I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director [http://www.mironov.com/director/] of…
Leadership • 1 min read A Strategic Tool Chain Scott Sehlhorst [http://tynerblain.com/blog/about-the-author/], an incisive product thinker and occasional collaborator, made this strategic map of disciplines…
Leadership • 4 min read Your Next Developer Costs $1M/Year in Revenue As tech product managers, we’re often pitching the need for larger development teams. There’s an implied revenue obligation,…
Leadership • 4 min read Stone Soup and Leadership I just gave a copy of a children’s book called Stone Soup [http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Soup-Aladdin-Picture-Books/dp/0689711034]…
Innovation • 6 min read Who Is Your Internal Customer for Innovation? Imagine that you’re a tech company executive setting up an innovation program. Most of your initial focus is on…
Leadership • 1 min read Why Silicon Valley Continues to Rock the World (Stockholm Market Insights Conference) I was honored to keynote Tolpagorni’s annual Market Insights conference: What: Market Insights Conference Where: Stockholm, Sweden When: 13/…
Leadership • 3 min read Mentoring Product Managers: Case Method as Well as Tools I worry about how we grow product managers. For me, it’s more about mentoring than in-class lectures and templates.…
Leadership • 3 min read 5 Things To Do In Your First Week with a New Product …and 5 more for the first month. If you’re already a product manager and stepping in to take over…
Leadership • 1 min read Tuesday is Female Pronoun Persona Day As a long-time B2B infrastructure product manager, I’m used to thinking about my customers as guys. IT managers and…
Agile • 7 min read 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…
Agile • 7 min read 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…