Leading a large product team striving to develop SaaS products for the B2B enterprise space can be challenging in the best of times. Keeping the team focused on the most important areas for discovery and development, ensuring consistent input and feedback from our target market, and strengthening connections across our sales, marketing, and consulting teams… Continue reading Structures that help in trying times
Product teams are asked to plan in all kinds of ways and for all types of timeframes. We make individual sprint plans about how to hit our goals, and broad long-range plans about how to increase our penetration of existing client markets and grow into new markets we can serve. We have release plans that… Continue reading FAST planning
A lot has happened over the past year. My team has grown, my title has changed, our core product has gained traction in the B2B space we serve, and my life both personal and professional has been incredibly full. A lot has changed in the world in the past month. So far I have been… Continue reading Restarting this Product Management Blog
Those of you who’ve been reading my blog regularly over the years will not be surprised by these two things: I’m a firm believer in the value of principles over rules and I’m a huge fan of the Inside Intercom podcast. I’ve written often enough about principles that you can search my previous posts tagged… Continue reading Product principles
This morning I was listening to a podcast from Inside Intercom By the way, if you’re interested in product development at any level – if you’re a designer, a marketer, a developer, a product manager, a tester – and you are not listening to the weekly podcast from Inside Intercom then I strongly encourage you… Continue reading Problems, Outcomes, and Impact
I wrote recently about the five key questions product managers need to answer in developing successful solutions. Here I want to build on this post to talk about the role of product owners in the development process. First, I need to set some context. The wider Agile/Scrum community talks about Product Owners and Scrum Masters,… Continue reading How a product owner works with a product manager
As we train some new people in our company on the role of a product manager, and as the company as a whole thinks about growing as a product development organization, I am sometimes asked how I think about this expansive role. There are a lot of places you can find good information about the… Continue reading Five Key Questions
Let’s be honest, it’s been a LONG time since I was blogging regularly. When I started this blog several years ago I had a lot on my mind and wanted to both start and join a conversation about product management. I’m fortunate enough to work with a great team who enjoy experimenting with me on… Continue reading Update and book list
It’s been over a month since my last post (I’ll write later about my busyness and my blog plans heading into the fall) but I wanted to share some brief thoughts today. I’ve been thinking a lot about the roles of Product Manager and Product Owner in my firm and thought I would post a… Continue reading Wednesday wisdom – 3 October
Warning: the ideas below are a bit raw as this concerns a currently on-going situation keeping me occupied enough that it’s tough to find sustained time to reflect; feel free to weigh in with suggestions if you have them. And thanks for understanding; I’d love to only share fully polished ideas but in truth it’s… Continue reading Wednesday wisdom – 22 August
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