Agile • 3 min read Company-Wide Business Agility and the Soviets Until recently, most of the discussion around Agile has been strictly limited to software development teams. We focused on building…
Agile • 3 min read Adding Outbound to Cross-Functional Teams Lately, there’s been lots of discussion about whether Agile is strictly a software development methodology, without major impact on…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Burning Your Boats I spent 2006 consulting to small tech companies, including seven months as an interim executive. I also nearly co-founded a…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Owning the Gap Product managers are usually the people who “own the gap” for their specific products: identifying all of the missing or…
Organizations • 5 min read Defensive Processes New ventures begin with an entirely empty slate: no products, no customers, no desks, no organization charts, no established procedures…
Organizations • 6 min read Product Management is Inherently Political Recently, I had lunch with a bright young product manager trying to perfect the process for deciding which features to…
Organizations • 4 min read Growing Back into Management There’s a funny paradox about joining a tiny company and helping it grow. If part of its attractiveness is…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Girls Getting a Head Start(-Up) Most founders of VC-backed start-ups tend toward technical degrees, MBAs and forty-something gray hair – with a strong male bias. Here…
Organizations • 4 min read Why are there Serial Entrepreneurs? From the outside, it might seem that joining a fledgling start-up should only be about economics and the big payoff:…
Organizations • 5 min read Parenting and the Art of Product Management Over the years, I’ve told variations of this story many times: being a product champion is a lot like…