Originally posted on Applied Product Management Leadership:
The post title comes from a connection on LinkedIn … an author who enjoys teaching others about the differences between management and leadership … one of many inputs I value on my own leadership journey. So what does the question posed in the image have to do with leadership? Over…
As 2017 winds down and I reflect on another year of blogging, I feel it is time to face facts about this blog. I’m just not writing in it regularly anymore. My first year I added new content regularly – sometimes as many as two posts a week and in one case daily posts for… Continue reading Facing facts
The past few weeks have been very busy with conferences, client visits, and a lot of end-of-year planning activities. I wanted to post three brief notes on things I’ve been thinking about during this time: Product marketing. I spent a few days recently at an annual industry conference and as I usually do I took… Continue reading Recent notes
I know it is barely October, but at our company we are starting the year-end review process, giving and gathering feedback on what has gone well and what could use improvement. Side note here: why does no one want to talk about failure anymore? Agile development emphasizes the value of ‘failing fast’ and plenty of… Continue reading Feedback
As I put together some new blog posts in the next few months I also want to continue revisiting some older posts as well. I finished reblogging my old Monty Python-based entries on the role of a product owner and now I want to revisit the second ‘arc’ of my blog by discussing again the… Continue reading The role of Product Managers
As I head into the fall there are a number of topics I hope to blog about – both because these topics interest me and because they have come up in the past few months on the teams that I work closely with. So here are some sneak previews of things I’ll be writing about… Continue reading Notes on things to come
Originally posted on InTruthItsNotThatSimple:
I have the privilege of working with some great people. Both our technology team and our business team recruit bright and hardworking folks who care about the clients we serve. As we grow our product expertise and as we look toward launching new offerings in the months to come, I am…
Originally posted on InTruthItsNotThatSimple:
For more than a year the product team I work with has been developing a new product that we will formally unveil next month. I’ve been routinely impressed with the quality of work the team does, the creative solutions they find to problems, and their ability to balance new feature development…
Originally posted on InTruthItsNotThatSimple:
The scrum team I work with – like the company that I am part of – is globally distributed. We have coders and testers spread across offices in Europe and South America as well as in our home office in the US. This means that our daily scrums involve video calls…
I’m continuing my midsummer reblogs this week as I take a little vacation. I’m revisiting some of my earliest blog posts from 2012 and finding that the ideas that originally motivated me to start this blog still resonate for me today. Posting at a slightly different time so I don’t get lost in July 4th… Continue reading How to react when things change
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