Leadership • 4 min read 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…
Product Management • 2 min read Designing, Structuring and Leading Product Organizations (Toronto) Saeed Khan [https://transformationlabs.io/home/about-us/] and I led a one-day workshop in Toronto with insights, frameworks…
Leadership • 8 min read 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…
Leadership • 8 min read 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…
Jobs • 6 min read Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics? Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, Phil Wolff and John Sebes, I’ve been thinking about tech products that…
Leadership • 7 min read 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 • 1 min read Melbourne/Sydney: Leading The Product Conference What: Leading The Product conference I joined Brainmates and a roster of product thought leaders for 2019’s Leading The…
Market Thinking • 6 min read 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…
Leadership • 7 min read 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…
Jobs • 5 min read 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)…
Leadership • 10 min read 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…
Product Management • 1 min read Videocast: Transforming with Truly Effective Product Management Blaine Mathieu, Vantiq [https://vantiq.com/]‘s CMO, hosts a video interview series on digital transformation and the real-time…