Conway’s Law for Product Organizations
Conway’s Law is an old but useful idea: the organizational structure of software development teams is reflected in the…
Organizations
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Product Manager Shortage: Suddenly Sexy?
At the moment I post this, there are 1839 open product management jobs in San
Francisco/Silicon Valley. (Check here…
Why You’ll Eventually Need a Product Manager at Your Startup (SF)
Event: “Products That Count” meetup
When: Weds, Oct 22
Where: Yelp, 140 New Montgomery Street, SF
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Very early stage…
Mentoring Product Managers: Case Method as Well as Tools
I worry about how we grow product managers. For me, it’s more about mentoring
than in-class lectures and templates.…
5 Things To Do In Your First Week with a New Product
…and 5 more for the first month.
If you’re already a product manager and stepping in to take over…
Tuesday is Female Pronoun Persona Day
As a long-time B2B infrastructure product manager, I’m used to thinking about my
customers as guys. IT managers and…
Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical
As deeply data-driven, analytical product managers (or product owners or
business analysts or development leads), we’d like to pretend…
We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here
When software companies are short of developers (or architects or test
automation engineers or DevOps experts or technical writers or…
What kind of politics is involved in a product manager’s job?
I love Quora [http://www.quora.com/Rich-Mironov/answers], so spend a fair amount
of time there. This particular Q&…
Get a Mentor, Be a Mentor
There’s been a lot of good chatter in the PM-osphere about the need for
mentoring. Getting your first product…
Roadmap Process or Roadmap Results?
Listening to concerns from a client about an unsatisfying roadmapping process…
his main issue was wanting a better roadmap: one…
A Quick Exercise of Viewpoints
I’m building out some team-building exercises for software executives…
appreciate any comments or test drives.
Below are two cards…