Product In the Time of Cholera
I have about a dozen coaching/mentoring calls each week with product leaders, and the tone of those calls has…
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Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit
A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a…
Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise
I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs
they should choose. This is…
Reorganizing Product Teams
At workshops for product leaders, we often discuss different approaches to
implementing major organizational changes within product management teams and…
Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects
Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical
statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to…
What Do Product Leaders Do?
My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing…
The Product Leadership Career Ladder
In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers)…
How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software
Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are…
My Stories Are Too Short…
I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and
their product managers) must continually experiment…
Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input
I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and
development organizations. Many CEOs tell…
What Do Product Leaders Worry About? (Survey)
I spend much of my time coaching product leaders: folks who manage teams of
product managers and developer+designer+product…
“I’ll Quit Unless…”
(This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of
problematic communications. Not everyone on our…