What Do Product Leaders Worry About?
I spend much of my time with product leaders – folks who manage teams of product
managers – including at a recent…
Mentor
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This Is Why I Hire First for Product Experience
David Cancel’s post This Is Why I Never Hire Product Managers
[https://medium.com/life-learning/this-is-why-…
A VP Product’s Checklist
Individual product managers drive individual products or services. VPs of
Product Management establish the broader context for getting great
products/…
Stone Soup and Leadership
I just gave a copy of a children’s book called Stone Soup
[http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Soup-Aladdin-…
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…
The Power of a Few Customer Calls
{I recently had a long chat with a mentee who’s just moved into product
management from a developer role.…
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…
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…
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…