Leadership • 4 min read The Hungry Man Parable I talk with lots of executives from the go-to-market side of the house who think that building serious software is…
Agile • 4 min read I’ve abandoned “MVP” After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term…
Leadership • 2 min read Hiring a Head of Product (Video) The Business of Software [https://businessofsoftware.org/] conference team brought me back for their 2020 conference, run remotely rather than…
Innovation • 8 min read 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…
Innovation • 6 min read 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…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Cross-Functional Soft Skills for Product Leaders I joined Richard Chen of Product Gym [https://productgym.io/] for a podcast about product management, soft skills, and understanding…
Innovation • 7 min read 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…
Leadership • 3 min read Recognizing Longevity During my recent move, I was channeling Marie Kondo [https://konmari.com/] and cleaning out old office stuff when I…
Jobs • 6 min read Lying To Customers I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
Jobs • 6 min read Delegation for Product Leaders A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Product Leadership, Career Planning, and Getting Fired/Hired What: Product404’s podcast, hosted by Kent Keirsey Recorded: 14 April 2020 Length: 46 minutes _______________ Product404 [https://product404.org/] is…
Leadership • 4 min read 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…