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…
Leadership • 8 min read Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a…
Leadership • 8 min read Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is…
Jobs • 6 min read Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics? Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, Phil Wolff and John Sebes, I’ve been thinking about tech products that…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Podcast: How Product Managers Can Work Effectively With Data Scientists Felicia Anderson and I joined Chad McAllister on his Everyday innovator podcast for a discussion of How product managers can…
Leadership • 7 min read Reorganizing Product Teams At workshops for product leaders, we often discuss different approaches to implementing major organizational changes within product management teams and…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Webinar: Product Management Tips For Data Science Projects Webinar: “Product Management Tips For Data Science Projects” Sponsored by: Synerzip [http://www.synerzip.com/] When: Thursday, November 21, 2019…
Market Thinking • 6 min read Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to…
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…
Innovation • 6 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…
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…