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.…
Product Management
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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 When: January…
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, I joined a panel discussion with John Cutler, Petra Wille and Shilpa…
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 When: 22 October 2021 Recording of the webinar, PDF of…
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…
What Product Leaders Do (Keynote)
PlatoHQ’s Elevate Summit for engineering and product leaders was Sept 14/15/16. I gave a keynote in the…
Selling Problems (and Then Solutions) Instead of Philosophy
(this builds on my June difficult discussions post) As good product folks, we know that customers must recognize a problem…