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I’m honored to have frequent opportunities for talks, workshops, presentations, university lectures, podcasts and panel discussions. Here are selected in-person and online events, most including slides or other supporting material.

Upcoming events/talks/workshops

Jan 19: Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder

2021

Podcast: “Champagne Strategy,” Innovation, and Product Growth November 18, 2021
Panel: What Does It Mean To Be An Excellent Product Leader? October 27, 2021
Getting Developers’ Buy-In on Build versus Buy October 22, 2021
Podcast: Fighting Fires in B2B Product Management October 5, 2021
Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things September 15, 2021
What Product Leaders Do (Keynote) September 15, 2021
Podcast: What Do You Do With a HiPPO? August 24, 2021
Podcast: Building and Managing a World Class Product Management Discipline August 19, 2021
How to Manage Misaligned Stakeholders August 19, 2021
Podcast: Why Finding Insights is So Painful August 10, 2021
AMA on Working with Sales and Executives June 9, 2021
Managing Misaligned Stakeholders (Mind The Product APAC) April 14, 2021
What Product Leaders Do (Cape Town) March 17, 2021
My Stories Aren’t Long Enough… (Product Camp Cascadia) March 6, 2021
Podcast: Workplace Confessions February 25, 2021
Podcast: Combining Business & Product Mindsets January 20, 2021
Software Economics and Slippery Slopes for Product Companies January 16, 2021
How Agile + Product Management helps build the RIGHT things the RIGHT Way January 13, 2021

2020

Podcast: Product Leadership beyond Managing PMs November 16, 2020
Hiring a Head of Product (Video) September 22, 2020
Webinar: Building Soft Skills as a Product Leader September 15, 2020
Podcast: Bridging the Product/Engineering Gap August 18, 2020
Podcast: Cross-Functional Soft Skills for Product Leaders August 16, 2020
Podcast: Savvy PMs Engage All Their Audiences June 17, 2020
Webinar: Creating a Thriving Product Organization June 16, 2020
Webinar: Covid19’s Impact On Your Product Strategy May 12, 2020
Podcast: Product Leadership, Career Planning, and Getting Fired/Hired April 14, 2020
How Agile + Product Management helps build the RIGHT things the RIGHT Way April 9, 2020
“My Stories Aren’t Long Enough…” (Dublin/Virtual) April 1, 2020
Podcast: Execs Don’t Always Know What Users Need March 16, 2020
Designing, Structuring and Leading Product Organizations (Toronto) March 10, 2020

2019

Podcast: Creating a Thriving Product Organization December 5, 2019
Podcast: How Product Managers Can Work Effectively With Data Scientists December 2, 2019
Webinar: Product Management Tips For Data Science Projects November 21, 2019
Melbourne/Sydney: Leading The Product Conference October 22, 2019
Brainrants on Product Leadership October 19, 2019
Video: “Moving Up Into Product Leadership” at INDUSTRY September 24, 2019
What Do Product Leaders Do? (and How Can I Become One?) August 7, 2019
Webinar: My Stories Aren’t Long Enough… July 23, 2019
Product Experience Podcast: The Product Mensch July 17, 2019
Videocast: Moving Up into a Product Leadership Role May 1, 2019
Dublin: Organizational Challenge of Enterprise Roadmapping April 16, 2019
Cambridge: Software Pricing Demystified (Business of Software Europe) April 11, 2019
Seattle: Understanding Enterprise Product Companies March 25, 2019
Podcast… “The Rich Mironov Hypothesis: Great Product Leadership is Both Subtle and Slow to Pay Off” March 19, 2019
Videocast: Transforming with Truly Effective Product Management March 19, 2019
Auckland: “Saying No to Good Ideas” February 11, 2019
Rosenfeld Podcast: Managing Multiple Points of View January 17, 2019

2018

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Product Love Podcast with Pendo’s Eric Boduch October 17, 2018
Boston: Roadmapping’s Organizational Challenges (Business of Software) October 2, 2018
Athens: The Need for Real End User Validation September 21, 2018
Auckland: Scaling SaaS August 29, 2018
Auckland: Product Management Leadership Games August 29, 2018
Webinar: 10 to 10 Million, Navigating Growth as a Product Manager August 23, 2018
IoT Product Podcast: You Can’t Outsource Strategy June 12, 2018
Visual Notes from Pitney Bowes Product Management Summit June 6, 2018
Understanding Enterprise Product Companies (Video) May 22, 2018
Frankfurt: ISPMA Software Product Summit Keynote April 17, 2018
Dublin: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking April 11, 2018
Dublin Workshop: Managing Stakeholders and Priorities March 12, 2018
Sydney: Building & Scaling a Product Team March 1, 2018
Sydney Workshop: Managing Stakeholders and Priorities March 1, 2018
Melbourne: Building and Scaling a Product Team February 27, 2018
Auckland: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking February 20, 2018
InfoQ Podcast: Product Development/Management Trends January 2, 2018

2017

Santa Clara: Certificate in Productizing Innovation September 9, 2017
Auckland: Four Laws of Tech Product Economics July 18, 2017
Podcast: How to Be Effective Without a Product Leader May 9, 2017
Paying It Forward: Product Camp SV Keynote April 19, 2017
Post: 10 Questions from The Clever PM April 19, 2017
Dublin: Product Managers, Product Owners, Scalable Product Models April 5, 2017
Podcast: Perspectives on Product Management April 5, 2017
Podcast: Mistakes Product Managers Make April 5, 2017
Seattle: Four Laws of Tech Product Economics March 27, 2017
Product Camp: Getting Promoted to Director March 25, 2017
One-Day Product Leaders Roundtable March 24, 2017
Portland: Four Laws of Tech Product Economics January 31, 2017
TwitterChat on DevOps & Product Management January 19, 2017

2016

Market-Facing Skills for Product Managers/Owners December 14, 2016
Podcast: Mastering Business Analysis December 13, 2016
Podcast: Organizational Anthropology November 22, 2016
Building the RIGHT Thing @ AgileCamp SV October 28, 2016
Product Management Basics for Project Managers (PMI webinar) October 18, 2016
Products That Count Podcast September 19, 2016
Lean Meetup: Challenges of Enterprise Product Management August 23, 2016
FIR B2B Podcast: How Product Managers and Marketers Can Work Together August 8, 2016
Agile2016 Innovation & Product talks July 25, 2016
Hack The Process Podcast July 4, 2016
Product Leadership Workshop (MTPCon) May 3, 2016
Product Tank Silicon Valley, Four Laws of Software Economics April 26, 2016
MTP Product Leadership Workshop, London April 15, 2016
Agile@Cork April 12, 2016
ProductTank Dublin, Four Laws of Software Economics April 7, 2016
Turning Ideas into Software (Panel) March 23, 2016
Everyday Innovator Podcast: Product/Organizational Challenges January 17, 2016

2015

SVPMA 15th Anniversary: Future of Product Management December 2, 2015
Unpacking Business Value (AgileCamp Dallas Keynote) October 19, 2015
Talk: Four Laws of Software Economics (Business of Software) September 21, 2015
Making Hard Product/Portfolios Decisions (Product Tank SF) August 20, 2015
Agile2015: Intro to Agile Product Management August 5, 2015
Why You’ll Eventually Need a Product Manager at Your Startup July 28, 2015
Making The Right Strategic Choices in Product Portfolios (RallyON) June 15, 2015
Driving Strategic Choices for Agile Product Portfolios (Agile Leadership Network) May 26, 2015
Silicon Valley View of Product Owner/Manager Challenges (Agile@Cork) April 13, 2015
What do Directors and VPs of Product Management Do? (PCampSV) March 14, 2015
Bangalore product tour (Feb 2015) February 4, 2015

2014

Why Silicon Valley Continues to Rock the World (Stockholm Market Insights Conference) November 13, 2014
Good, Better, Best (Product Camp Seattle) October 25, 2014
Why You’ll Eventually Need a Product Manager at Your Startup (SF) October 22, 2014
Scaling Agile Product Teams (Zürich) September 17, 2014
“Product Management is Not Optional” (ELSIG, Palo Alto) August 17, 2014
Is Product Management Obsolete? (SVPMA, Palo Alto) August 6, 2014
Scaling Product Management/Owner Teams (SV-ALN) June 10, 2014
Video: Scaling Up Agile Product Teams (at Cisco) April 4, 2014
Good, Better and Great Product Management (PCamp LA Keynote) March 1, 2014
Customer Value and What Things Are Worth February 14, 2014
IT@Cork: Product Manager/Product Owner Challenges February 11, 2014
Webinar: Demystifying Agile Product Management January 22, 2014

2013

“Why I’m Passionate About Product Management” (PCamp SF Keynote) October 12, 2013
Three Product Challenges for Entrepreneurs (Stanford) May 14, 2013
“Getting Promoted” Talk at SV Product Camp ’13 March 25, 2013

2012

Video: Product Management and Startups August 19, 2012
Product Management Essentials for ProJECT Managers June 16, 2012
StartUP SF: Defining Product Management May 16, 2012
Video: Importance of Roadmapping May 13, 2012
Podcast: Galvanizing The Product Management Career Path April 24, 2012
Stockholm Product Leadership Days February 24, 2012
Agile Product Manager/Product Owner Dilemma January 19, 2012

2011

Webcast with John Peltier December 12, 2011
Product Management Essentials for Project / Program Managers October 6, 2011
Santa Clara MBA Lecture on Product Mgmt April 25, 2011
How Engineering Can Work Better with Product Management April 21, 2011

2010

Skills You Need to Succeed as a PM (SVPMA Panel) December 1, 2010
How Agile Changes (and Doesn’t Change) What Product Managers Do November 1, 2010
Santa Clara MBA Lecture on PM and NPD September 23, 2010
Three Product Challenges for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs July 15, 2010
Where Does (Should) Strategy Live in Your Company? April 12, 2010
P-Camp ‘10: Thinking Like an Agile Product Manager March 15, 2010
Third Annual Silicon Valley P-Camp March 13, 2010
Santa Clara MBA Lecture on PM, Pricing and Roadmaps January 7, 2010

2009

Agile Product Manager Dilemma November 17, 2009
Keeping Your Product Management Job October 21, 2009
Agile 2009: Product Management/Ownership and Business Agility September 20, 2009
Forrester Podcast with Tom Grant August 18, 2009
Product Camp NYC July 18, 2009
Agile Transformation Seminar April 30, 2009
Pricing, Business Models, and What Things are Worth (Workshop) April 25, 2009
Strategic Pricing for Start-Ups and New Products April 20, 2009
Second Annual P-Camp March 14, 2009
Strategic Pricing (MIT Sloan School) February 25, 2009

2008

Customer Input and Planning Horizons (Haas Executive Education) November 4, 2008
Managing Internet Products (Haas) October 6, 2008
P-Camp, the first Agile Unconference for Product Managers March 15, 2008

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2021 (15)

December 26 | Product Coaching and “Show, Don’t Tell”
December 26 | We’re In A Product Candidate’s Job Market
November 28 | Product Sprawl
October 26 | Watering Down SaaS ARR
September 30 | Exiting Gracefully
September 19 | The Risks of Replatforming
September 8 | Selling Problems (and Then Solutions) Instead of Philosophy
August 17 | Merchandizing Product Management
July 31 | How Weak Analogies About Software Can Lead Us Astray
June 24 | Difficult Product Discussions with CEOs
June 1 | Coaching With Heart
May 22 | We Can’t Schedule Innovation, But We Can Schedule Discovery
April 6 | Prioritization Beyond Algorithms
February 11 | Shoulder To Shoulder
January 17 | How Product Can (and Can’t) Speed Up Development

2020 (12)

October 7 | The Hungry Man Parable
September 22 | I’ve abandoned “MVP”
September 14 | Hiring a Head of Product
August 17 | Business Cases Are Stories About Money
July 16 | Nandini Jammi and Check My Ads
July 3 | Recognizing Longevity
June 27 | Lying To Customers
May 16 | Delegation for Product Leaders
April 12 | Product In the Time of Cholera
March 4 | Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit
February 6 | Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise
January 8 | Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics?

2019 (7)

December 2 | Reorganizing Product Teams
September 15 | Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects
June 27 | What Do Product Leaders Do?
May 20 | The Product Leadership Career Ladder
May 2 | How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software
March 6 | My Stories Are Too Short…
January 17 | Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

2018 (7)

December 28 | What Do Product Leaders Worry About? (Survey)
November 18 | “I’ll Quit Unless…”
November 2 | The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development
August 23 | How to Make Time for Customer Interviews & Validation
July 25 | Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management?
June 28 | Understanding Enterprise Product Companies
April 7 | Talking Directly with (Real) Customers

2017 (8)

December 31 | Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions
October 26 | “My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”
August 27 | Hearing About Accounts, Listening for Segments
August 8 | Let’s Abandon Customers and Users
June 30 | The Software Development Deli Counter
May 1 | 7 Ways to Know That You Need a Head of Product
March 12 | Getting Developers’ Buy-In on Build versus Buy
January 19 | Selling Vs. Learning

2016 (13)

December 7 | Metrics for Product Career Schools?
November 10 | Motivating Development Teams
October 26 | Productivity vs. Responsiveness
August 15 | Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers
July 5 | The DIY Illusion
June 28 | What Do Recruiters Look For in a Product Management Resume?
May 29 | Eight Mistakes You’ll (Probably) Make in Your First Product Management Job
May 19 | “It’s Not Just Me”
April 30 | What Do Product Leaders Worry About?
March 28 | This Is Why I Hire First for Product Experience
February 21 | Organizational Thank-Yous
January 26 | A VP Product’s Checklist
January 16 | Will 2016 Be The Year Of The Unicorn Apocalypse In Silicon Valley?

2015 (16)

December 26 | 2015: A Strong Product Year
November 13 | Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 4)
October 10 | Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 3)
September 28 | Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 2)
September 14 | Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 1)
August 4 | Interviewing Like A Product Manager
June 26 | Portfolio Thinking: A Platform Example
May 17 | Product Spending and Implied Strategy
May 17 | Appallingly Unfortunate Mobile Ad
May 5 | Prioritization Requires Strategy
April 27 | Why (Agile) Program Management Tools Don’t Help (Agile) Product Managers
April 27 | A Strategic Tool Chain
March 25 | Your Next Developer Costs $1M/Year in Revenue
March 19 | A Brilliantly Awful Customer Experience
February 27 | Stone Soup and Leadership
January 25 | Who Is Your Internal Customer for Innovation?

2014 (17)

December 21 | “Free” Sells (Business Model Required)
December 1 | Conway’s Law for Product Organizations
November 13 | Product Manager Shortage: Suddenly Sexy?
October 7 | Mentoring Product Managers: Case Method as Well as Tools
August 27 | 5 Things To Do In Your First Week with a New Product
August 5 | Tuesday is Female Pronoun Persona Day
July 17 | Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical
July 7 | The Power of a Few Customer Calls
June 11 | We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here
May 18 | Motivating Development Teams
May 7 | What kind of politics is involved in a product manager’s job?
April 6 | Get a Mentor, Be a Mentor
April 1 | Is Apple the new Microsoft?
March 25 | Consultant, Position Thyself!
February 27 | Roadmap Process or Roadmap Results?
February 21 | A Quick Exercise of Viewpoints
January 5 | What We Need in a VP of Product Management

2013 (17)

December 3 | The Surprise We Can See Coming
November 25 | EOL Cookbook
November 8 | Delegate, Trust, Verify, Protect
October 7 | JobLorn: Missing My Former Product Segment
September 26 | 5 Market-Facing Skills for (Some) Agile Product Owners
September 15 | Joblorn: Grumpy About Unfunded Projects
September 8 | Product Management Skills For Non-Revenue Product Owners (#2 of 3)
August 19 | Lies, Boundary Cases and Checking Our Work
July 29 | A Product Management Skills Map For Product Owners (#1 of 3)
July 8 | Advice to the Joblorn
June 19 | What’s Your Strategic App?
May 14 | A Director-Level Thought Experiment
March 30 | Six Ways Product Managers Can Help Their Agile Development Teams (and vice versa)
February 28 | Dog Whistles and the Myth of R&D Slack
February 20 | Notes from the Unicorn Hiring Front
January 27 | What Hiring Managers are Looking for in Product Management Candidates
January 2 | 4 1/2 Mac Productivity Products that Don’t Suck

2012 (14)

December 10 | B2B SaaS Companies Need Behavioral Expertise
October 29 | Panning for Gold in the Input Stream
October 15 | Managing the Unmanageable
October 4 | Asking for input: PM Directors and VPs
September 19 | 4 Mistakes that Product Executives Should Avoid
July 24 | Strategically Clogged Backlogs
June 17 | Video: Agile Product Mgmt challenges
June 3 | The Power of Face-to-Face Social Networking
May 27 | Painters, Portraits, Software Architects
April 2 | Measuring Product Managers (in Swedish or English)
February 25 | What’s A Vice President of Product Management?
February 8 | Product Camp Silicon Valley 2012
January 21 | Dublin’s Software Pioneers
January 3 | Moving Up To Director

2011 (2)

December 15 | Getting Your First Product Management Job
February 1 | Social Entrepreneurship

2010 (13)

December 2 | Does Your Product Suck?
November 5 | Leadership, Trust and Pronouns
August 16 | A Journey of 1000 Miles is Still 1000 Miles Long
July 23 | Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap
May 31 | “What If Dev Doesn’t Think Product Mgmt Represents Customers?”
May 10 | Metrics and More Metrics
May 9 | Product Management Assessment Tool
April 22 | Very simple customer savings/ROI template
March 9 | Market Facts, Judgment, Fallibility and Ownership
March 8 | A great SVPMA talk: "How To Get That Next PM Job"
February 19 | New (old) role, new (old) website, new (old) city
January 15 | Kindle version of “Art of Product Management”
January 6 | Review: “Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams”

2009 (9)

October 30 | Site Licenses and Other Real-World Intrusions
September 1 | The Art of Product Management: Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator
August 22 | EOL from the Customer’s POV
July 31 | 6 Lessons for Non-Development Executives at Agile Software Companies
June 30 | Profitably Pairing Software and Professional Services
April 1 | Company-Wide Business Agility and the Soviets
March 23 | Social Animals in Lone Wolf Roles
February 28 | Adding Outbound to Cross-Functional Teams
January 26 | More Chefs and Agile Restauranteurs

2008 (4)

December 30 | How Well Can You Predict The Future?
November 15 | Understanding the Opportunities of Buy-Side Economics
July 15 | Disruptive Pricing Units
February 23 | The Accidental Agilist

2007 (3)

November 10 | A Planetary View of Agile Product Management
May 20 | Grocers and Chefs: Software Service Models
March 31 | Service Revenue and Upsell Marketing

2006 (4)

December 28 | Burning Your Boats
May 31 | Crowding Out Tech Support
March 1 | Avoiding the Post-Course Correction
February 9 | Owning the Gap

2005 (2)

December 30 | Open Source: Tree Museums
February 28 | Defensive Processes

2004 (7)

November 28 | Sharks, Pilot Fish, and the Product Food Chain
September 29 | Product Management is Inherently Political
June 29 | Growing Back into Management
May 29 | Girls Getting a Head Start(-Up)
March 29 | Risk-Sharing and Customer-Perceived Value
February 28 | Why are there Serial Entrepreneurs?
January 28 | Sales-Friendly Price Lists

2003 (8)

December 28 | Insider Thinking
October 29 | Where Should PM Report?
August 28 | Parenting and the Art of Product Management
July 29 | The Roadmap Less Traveled
June 29 | The "Null Service"
May 29 | The Strategic Secret Shopper
April 28 | What’s Your Pricing Metric?
March 29 | Open Innovation: A Great Strategy Book

2002 (6)

December 2 | Mo’ Beta
November 29 | "Goldilocks" Packaging
October 29 | So Your Product Wants to Be a Service…
September 29 | Early Selling: Thoroughbreds and Explorers
August 28 | Getting into Customers’ Heads
June 29 | Avoiding a Ticking B-O-M

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