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]
called out that some of the Valley’s…
Market Thinking
143 posts
Productivity vs. Responsiveness
Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management
teams at enterprise software firms. These include…
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 Olsen,…
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…
The DIY Illusion
I’ve recently talked with several companies that are spending $1M/year or more
to build generic software that is…
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-i-never-hire-product-managers-c321ca96505b#.pb7pgy76r]
on Medium…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 1)
Newton taught us that gravity’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.
I’ve spent a lot…