I know I’ve been writing a lot about questions lately (what else can you expect from a blog that declares in its title that things aren’t as simple as you might have hoped), but I find it a helpful way of framing discussions around product development. With that in mind, I want to talk about… Continue reading What, Why, and How
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
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
My team has been on a roll recently with what we call “voice of the customer” conversations. We develop technology for the corporate treasury space and have been able to dive deep into the process that some large companies use to handle the processes that our software can help manage. These are not sales calls;… Continue reading Wednesday wisdom – 1 August
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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…
Originally posted on Applied Product Management Leadership:
A few weeks ago, I published a post When Might it be OK to not Listen to the Customer with the inspiration coming from having just finished Innovator’s Dilemma by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen. To oversimplify the summary, it was about the distinction between sustaining and disruptive innovation. Recently, I…
If you read this blog regularly you may have noticed that I talk about “jobs to be done” a fair amount. This is a concept our firm uses in analyzing the products we make and the markets we serve. You can read lots about this idea in books and blogs and learn about it in… Continue reading Top Ten Jobs
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