We’re In A Product Candidate’s Job Market
Every CPO/VP Product I talk with is in a battle for product talent. It’s even harder than normal…
Validation
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We Can’t Schedule Innovation, But We Can Schedule Discovery
Every week, I talk with CEOs who tell me they want to speed up innovation. In fact, they want to…
I’ve abandoned “MVP”
After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term…
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…
Reorganizing Product Teams
At workshops for product leaders, we often discuss different approaches to implementing major organizational changes within product management teams and…
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…
What Do Product Leaders Worry About? (Survey)
I spend much of my time coaching product leaders: folks who manage teams of product managers and developer+designer+product…
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…
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…
A VP Product’s Checklist
Individual product managers drive individual products or services. VPs of Product Management establish the broader context for getting great products/…
Why (Agile) Program Management Tools Don’t Help (Agile) Product Managers
Agile development teams need tools for tracking the creation of software. There are dozens of well-known, purpose-built offerings including Jira,…