The Risks of Replatforming
(Or How Major Platform Migrations Really Happen) Many companies have replatforming efforts underway. Architectures get old, new kinds of partners…
Product Strategy
13 posts
Prioritization Beyond Algorithms
The problem of prioritization comes up in many of my coaching discussions with product leaders, and in almost every product…
Business Cases Are Stories About Money
Last week, I had three separate conversations with VPs of Product about business cases… initially framed as “do you have…
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…
“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…
Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers
As product managers, we worry about market results – not just successfully shipping stuff on time, but growing our product’s…
Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 3)
Our two previous posts noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your…
Prioritization Requires Strategy
I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director of Product Management at a company…
Video: Agile Product Mgmt challenges
The second video (of five) in Tolpagorni's product leadership series: Magnus Billgren and Rich Mironov talk about strategic product management…
How Well Can You Predict The Future?
It’s been a very tough quarter for economic forecasters, quota-carrying sales teams and CEOs. The sudden downturn even caught…
Understanding the Opportunities of Buy-Side Economics
As CEOs of our products, we product managers have a lot to do. Traditionally, this has included “build-versus-buy” decisions. The…
Open Source: Tree Museums
2005 was a great year for open source developers and solutions, with a dramatic boost in credibility, tools and respect.…