Leadership • 7 min read “I’ll Quit Unless…” (This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of problematic communications. Not everyone on our…
Innovation • 16 min read The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development Most product companies have a few things in their roadmaps that are specifically for single customers – I call these sales…
Innovation • 5 min read How to Make Time for Customer Interviews & Validation I got a lot of good responses from this recent post about the need to frequently talk directly with real…
Leadership • 5 min read Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management? I’ve been mulling this for a while, recently prompted by thoughts from Josh Robb [https://twitter.com/josh_robb]…
Product Management • 8 min read Understanding Enterprise Product Companies I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. Here…
Product Management • 1 min read Understanding Enterprise Product Companies (Video) What: Understanding Enterprise Product Companies Host: Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley [http://www.meetup.com/lean-product/] meetup When:…
Product Management • 1 min read Dublin: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking Topic: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking Where:Product Tank Dublin [https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Dublin/events/248435992/] Hosted…
Innovation • 7 min read Talking Directly with (Real) Customers I speak/write incessantly about the importance of product managers talking directly with their users and buyers (collectively “customers”), not…
Product Management • 1 min read InfoQ Podcast: Product Development/Management Trends Shane Hastie’s podcast [https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/Rich-Mironov-trends-product-development] for InfoQ covers agile culture and methods. I joined his…
Leadership • 8 min read Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and…
Leadership • 6 min read “My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…” (combining a series of similar conversations) Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product…
Leadership • 6 min read Hearing About Accounts, Listening for Segments In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support individual customers or they support the market.…