The Risks of Replatforming
(Or How Major Platform Migrations Really Happen) Many companies have replatforming efforts underway. Architectures get old, new kinds of partners…
Strategy
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How Weak Analogies About Software Can Lead Us Astray
I often have conversations with CEOs of software companies or software-powered (ecommerce) companies who aren’t steeped in how software…
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…
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…
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 are…
Reorganizing Product Teams
At workshops for product leaders, we often discuss different approaches to implementing major organizational changes within product management teams and…
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…
Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input
I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Many CEOs tell…
Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management?
I’ve been mulling this for a while, recently prompted by thoughts from Josh Robb and Amy Nguyen. Many infrastructure…
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…
“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…