Product or Feature?
Stepping out of leadership challenges for a moment, here’s a practical topic that some product managers struggle with: is…
Product Management
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Product Management of Complex B2B Products (Software + Hardware + Services)
In this webinar, we talked about the fundamental differences between software, hardware/physical products, and services product management.…
Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder
This remote talk on “Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career
Ladder” was hosted by SVPMA [https://svpma.…
Product Coaching and “Show, Don’t Tell”
I sometimes find product management teams composed entirely of first-timers,
where not a single person has any previous experience as…
We’re In A Product Candidate’s Job Market
Every CPO/VP Product I talk with is in a battle for product talent. It’s even
harder than normal…
Product Sprawl
There’s a pattern I sometimes see at software companies, particularly those
targeting enterprises or on the long march moving…
Panel: What Does It Mean To Be An Excellent Product Leader?
As part of Productboard’s Product Excellence Summit
[https://www.productboard.com/product-excellence-summit/], I joined a panel
discussion with John…
Watering Down SaaS ARR
I been doing occasional product due diligence this year for a few PE/VC firms, helping them vet potential investments…
Getting Developers’ Buy-In on Build versus Buy
Topic: Getting Developers’ Buy-In on Build versus Buy
Host: Sendbird [https://sendbird.com/]
When: 22 October 2021
Recording of the…
Exiting Gracefully
Longevity for product executives is pretty short: typically between 2 and 2.5
years. So in the course of a…
The Risks of Replatforming
(Or How Major Platform Migrations Really Happen)
Many companies have replatforming efforts underway. Architectures get old, new
kinds of partners…
Selling Problems (and Then Solutions) Instead of Philosophy
(this builds on my June difficult discussions
[https://www.mironov.com/difficult/] post)
As good product folks, we know that…