Market Thinking • 1 min read Market-Facing Skills for Product Managers/Owners What: Product Management Fast Track Meetup Topic: Market-Facing Skills for Product Managers and Product Owners When: Dec 14th. 2016…
Jobs • 2 min read Metrics for Product Career Schools? December 6th’s Wall Street Journal [http://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-companies-delay-diversity-reports-to-rethink-goals-1480933984]…
Leadership • 8 min read Productivity vs. Responsiveness Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management teams at enterprise software firms. These…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Lean Meetup: Challenges of Enterprise Product Management Palo Alto’s Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley [http://www.meetup.com/lean-product/] meetup, led by Dan…
Leadership • 8 min read Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers As product managers, we worry about market results – not just successfully shipping stuff on time, but growing our product’s…
Innovation • 5 min read The DIY Illusion I’ve recently talked with several companies that are spending $1M/year or more to build generic software that is…
Jobs • 4 min read 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-…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Will 2016 Be The Year Of The Unicorn Apocalypse In Silicon Valley? Paul Glader, in a Jan 16th post on the Forbes/ Leadership blog, quotes from a discussion we had with the…
Leadership • 1 min read 2015: A Strong Product Year It’s been a stellar year for folks involved in product management, UX/design thinking, Lean, Agile, and shipping great…
Leadership • 8 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 4) We’ve laid out three fundamental facts about commercial software: your development team will never be big enough; all of…
Innovation • 5 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 3) Our two previous posts noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your…
Innovation • 7 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 2) Post #1 noted that your development team will never, ever, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams.…