Jobs • 5 min read The Product Leadership Career Ladder In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers)…
Leadership • 10 min read How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are…
Leadership • 1 min read Dublin: Organizational Challenge of Enterprise Roadmapping What: INDUSTRY [https://europe.industryconference.com/#intro] Product conference Talk: “The Organizational Challenge of Enterprise Roadmapping” When: 15-17 April 2019…
Leadership • 1 min read Seattle: Understanding Enterprise Product Companies What: Understanding Enterprise Product Companies Host: PMC [http://www.pmcnw.org/], the Pacific Northwest Product Management Community When: Monday, 25…
Agile • 6 min read My Stories Are Too Short… I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their…
Innovation • 7 min read Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Many CEOs tell…
Innovation • 5 min read What Do Product Leaders Worry About? (Survey) I spend much of my time coaching product leaders: folks who manage teams of product managers and developer+designer+product…
Leadership • 7 min read “I’ll Quit Unless…” (This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of problematic communications. Not everyone on our…
Innovation • 16 min read The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development Most product companies have a few things in their roadmaps that are specifically for single customers – I call these sales…
Leadership • 1 min read Product Love Podcast with Pendo’s Eric Boduch Pendo’s Product Craft podcast [https://productcraft.com/category/podcast/] series includes conversations with a range of product leaders. Eric…
Innovation • 5 min read How to Make Time for Customer Interviews & Validation I got a lot of good responses from this recent post about the need to frequently talk directly with real…
Leadership • 5 min read Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management? I’ve been mulling this for a while, recently prompted by thoughts from Josh Robb [https://twitter.com/josh_robb]…