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…
Product Management • 3 min read Motivating Development Teams I just had a really interesting working session with an LA-area product management team about how to motivate developers. Rather…
Leadership • 2 min read What kind of politics is involved in a product manager’s job? I love Quora [http://www.quora.com/Rich-Mironov/answers], so spend a fair amount of time there. This particular Q&…
Jobs • 5 min read Get a Mentor, Be a Mentor There’s been a lot of good chatter in the PM-osphere about the need for mentoring. Getting your first product…
Agile • 1 min read 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…
Leadership • 2 min read A Quick Exercise of Viewpoints I’m building out some team-building exercises for software executives… appreciate any comments or test drives. Below are two cards…
Jobs • 5 min read What We Need in a VP of Product Management A lot of product management writing is about the individual product manager (PM), with emphasis on tools, lean start-up models…
Leadership • 4 min read The Surprise We Can See Coming A phrase has been popping into my head at recent client workshops. While emphasizing the need to think ahead, especially…
Leadership • 2 min read Delegate, Trust, Verify, Protect There’s an infinitely long list of things that product managers ‘should do.’ Take a look at any product management…
Jobs • 3 min read Joblorn: Grumpy About Unfunded Projects {Blended from several recent “Joblorn” questions. If you’re not sure this was yours, it probably was.} Rich, I’m…
Agile • 7 min read Product Management Skills For Non-Revenue Product Owners (#2 of 3) In an earlier [http://www.mironov.com/pm-skills4po/] post, we laid out a framework for agile software development projects (internally…
Agile • 9 min read A Product Management Skills Map For Product Owners (#1 of 3) This is the first of three linked posts revisiting the product owner /agile product manager challenge: two similarly named roles…