A Planetary View of Agile Product Management
Product management is involved with most internal groups, but not equally and not all at the same time. PMs need…
Organizations
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Service Revenue and Upsell Marketing
Much of my consulting lately involves on-demand services (aka software-as-a-service, or “SaaS”). I’m seeing ever-growing interest from business customers…
Burning Your Boats
I spent 2006 consulting to small tech companies, including seven months as an interim executive. I also nearly co-founded a…
Crowding Out Tech Support
This week, there’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere and popular press about “crowdsourcing” — empowering crowds of…
Owning the Gap
Product managers are usually the people who “own the gap” for their specific products: identifying all of the missing or…
Open Source: Tree Museums
2005 was a great year for open source developers and solutions, with a dramatic boost in credibility, tools and respect.…
Defensive Processes
New ventures begin with an entirely empty slate: no products, no customers, no desks, no organization charts, no established procedures…
Sharks, Pilot Fish, and the Product Food Chain
When you’re launching a new venture, one of your hungry competitor earliest considerations is how your innovation might fit…
Product Management is Inherently Political
Recently, I had lunch with a bright young product manager trying to perfect the process for deciding which features to…
Growing Back into Management
There’s a funny paradox about joining a tiny company and helping it grow. If
part of its attractiveness is…
Growing Back into Management
There’s a funny paradox about joining a tiny company and helping it grow. If part of its attractiveness is…
Girls Getting a Head Start(-Up)
Most founders of VC-backed start-ups tend toward technical degrees, MBAs and
forty-something gray hair – with a strong male bias. Here…