Leadership • 5 min read Permission To Stay Focused An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational…
company strategy • 6 min read Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy Expanding on a recent post (Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product,…
Leadership • 1 min read Online Course: Product Leadership Essentials After decades of in-person classes, workshops, and event keynotes... I'm offering a live (real-time) remote course for CPOs,…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Speaking the Language of C-Level Execs (Money) Margarida Cosme Pereira, with Lisbon's Productized conference, invited me to join their podcast for a wide-ranging discussion including:…
Economics • 11 min read Moving from Services to Products I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies. (See this…
Executives • 9 min read Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and…
Organizations • 5 min read What Do We Owe Our Teams? Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the…
Innovation • 1 min read Podcast: How to Influence Executives For his Innovation Talks podcast, Paul Heller and I had a wide-ranging discussion about how product management influences innovation and…
Jobs • 4 min read Thoughts for In-The-Job-Market Product Leaders I’ve had a lot of discussion over the last few months with product leaders looking for their next opportunity.…
Organizations • 11 min read The Chocolate Cake Problem In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies…
Economics • 1 min read Interview: How to Prevent Product Waste UserTesting's Mike Mace interviewed me for The Center for Human Insight and produced this long-form post. We covered…
Product Strategy • 9 min read Major Migrations Are An Organizational Challenge, Not Just a Technical Challenge I’ve sat through planning for scores of major B2B migrations, and implemented a half-dozen of my own. Usually the…