Podcast: Cross-Functional Soft Skills for Product Leaders
A wide-ranging conversation about product leadership, stakeholders, understanding our different audiences.
August 16, 2020
Visual Notes from Pitney Bowes Product Management Summit
Visual notes from Rich’s keynotes at Pitney Bowes Product Management Summit. Talks were on “Common SAAS Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them” and “Building Better Business Cases.”
June 6, 2018
Sydney Workshop: Managing Stakeholders and Priorities
This interactive workshop with Rich Mironov will help product managers improve their understanding and skills for working (upward) with their executives. We will frame the main challenges for company executives, then look at specific tools/techniques that product managers can use to drive decisions/strategies.
March 1, 2018
Hearing About Accounts, Listening for Segments
Enterprise (B2B) sales teams deal with the world one account at a time; product managers deal with whole customer segments. This naturally creates some friction, which good companies anticipate and manage.
August 27, 2017
Dublin: Product Managers, Product Owners, Scalable Product Models
ProductTank Dublin is hosting a short discussion on product managers, product owners and scalable models for agile product teams. This is usually a large, loud, opinionated group — so should be exciting and unpredictable.
April 5, 2017
Selling Vs. Learning
Product managers must be part of the (enterprise) selling process. But selling and learning are hard to do at the same time with the same customer. How do we create separate learning opportunities with a wide range of customers and prospects to deeply understanding markets, segments and fundamental needs?
January 19, 2017
The DIY Illusion
It’s easy to believe that broadly available commercial products don’t give us exactly what we want, but that our internal team can quickly whip up precisely the right thing. This ignores some fundamental economics of software commercialization.
July 5, 2016
Eight Mistakes You’ll (Probably) Make in Your First Product Management Job
New product managers have often studied the daily mechanics of the product development process, but tend to be light on soft skills, product strategy, organizational savvy, and market insight. Where do they get into trouble?
May 29, 2016
Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 4)
There are a lot of inputs to product strategy including advisory boards, customer forums, sales teams and ROI prioritization algorithms. None are sufficient on their own: we have to develop and apply strategic judgment, and test that in the marketplace.
November 13, 2015
Product Spending and Implied Strategy
We make day-by-day or story-by-story prioritization choices without noticing the cumulative impact of those choices. But they add up. How can we easily see our implied product priorities?
May 17, 2015
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