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
One thing we’ve been working on as our product organization grows is how to effectively communicate with different groups internally and externally about our product. The ideas below are still in the midst of iteration but I wanted to share here the ways I am thinking about communicating our product plans across time horizons with… Continue reading Wednesday wisdom – 11 July
It’s been a minute since I posted anything new so I wanted to share a few quick ideas. First, I’m listening to a great podcast with Laura Klein from Inside Intercom (here’s a link: https://bit.ly/2M5QBU8). I highly recommend checking it out if you’re interested in UI/UX and product development. Second, I’ve been thinking a lot… Continue reading Quick notes
Originally posted on Applied Product Management Leadership:
As Product Management leaders, enhancement requests come at us from all directions. But are all requests equal? And do customer requests supersede what is already on the roadmap? As your products become more mature and more complex, prioritization becomes more critical. Several coalescing experiences over the past week reminded…
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
Summer is nearly over, and so is my reblogging of the original post series I wrote when I began this blog 5 years ago. I enjoyed using one of my favorite movies as a source of inspiration for sharing thoughts on the role of Product Owner in an Agile development environment. These posts were fun… Continue reading One more feature
Originally posted on Applied Product Management Leadership:
Several weeks ago during one of our planning sessions, my boss referred to the Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager post by Ben Horowitz. While it has taken me awhile to get around to reading it, I am sure glad I did. Love, love, love the context of the…
Just a quick post here about a short piece I heard from NPR lately (the truth is my wonderful wife sent me a link to this piece). It unites several interests of mine – including product development, personal growth, goal setting, and discovering a sense of purpose – and I’d encourage you to take the… Continue reading Designing your life
In the midst of a very busy time I’m reminded of some of the core responsibilities of Product Owners at my firm (where the role straddles some typical duties of a product manager and a scrum master). Here are quick notes on what is surfacing: Know the details. As a product owner it is important… Continue reading Don’t drop the ball
You’ve likely heard many of the jokes before. There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can’t. Or there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t. Or maybe even there are two kinds of people in the world:… Continue reading People > Process > Product
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