5 Market-Facing Skills for (Some) Agile Product Owners
This completes a long three-post series (1,2) proposing a skills model for product owners, partly borrowed from market-…
Market Thinking
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Product Management Skills For Non-Revenue Product Owners (#2 of 3)
In an earlier post, we laid out a framework for agile software development projects (internally consumed vs. revenue customers; single…
Lies, Boundary Cases and Checking Our Work
I’ve been doing some research into marketing automation solutions over the last
month, both for myself and for a…
A Product Management Skills Map For Product Owners (#1 of 3)
This is the first of three linked posts revisiting the product owner /agile product manager challenge: two similarly named roles…
What’s Your Strategic App?
If your company is in the software business, then you know which applications are strategic: the ones you sell to…
Three Product Challenges for Entrepreneurs (Stanford)
Three perennial challenges for entrepreneurs and start-up founders are (1)
seriously listening to their markets, (2) building customer-side…
Six Ways Product Managers Can Help Their Agile Development Teams (and vice versa)
I had a chance to lead two discussions last week at an innovation conference
organized by Pitney Bowes. One session…
Notes from the Unicorn Hiring Front
I spent part of last week interviewing product management candidates on behalf of a client far from Silicon Valley. This…
What Hiring Managers are Looking for in Product Management Candidates
A question that I get every week is “how do I get my first tech product management job?” See old…
4 1/2 Mac Productivity Products that Don’t Suck
I have a complex set of office productivity needs, and struggle to find products (services) that fit my particular situation.…
B2B SaaS Companies Need Behavioral Expertise
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgilbert](co-written with Scott Gilbert
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgilbert], long-time consulting…
Panning for Gold in the Input Stream
As a product manager, you’re constantly getting input from customers, prospects, salespeople, company executives, developers, user groups, surveys, tweets,…