Those of you who have been reading my blog over time have likely seen me mention Marty Cagan from Silicon Valley Product Group. He and Chris Jones have relatively recently come out with a fabulous book I would highly recommend entitled Empowered (you can find it here among other places). Both practical and inspiring, this… Continue reading Great Product Leader Book
With no near-term end in sight for social distancing and working from home, I’m experimenting with new ways to empower my team and make sure crucial issues get the attention they need. One way I’m doing that is by having two types of meetings with my teammates on a regular basis. At the start of… Continue reading Meetings that matter
I do a lot of reading and recently finished an insightful and encouraging book by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall entitled Nine Lies About Work. I found this to be an encouraging and entertaining read that I have in fact now gone through twice (in part because I will be leading a discussion about it… Continue reading Thoughts on Nine Lies About Work
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
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
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
I just read a short piece from the Harvard Business Review about peer-to-peer coaching and found it very intriguing. My firm is piloting a program in this for 2019 and I have the chance to be among the first group working on it. Below is a link to the article and some of the core… Continue reading Peer Coaching
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
It’s hard to say that I’m starting a fresh discipline with my blog by writing three times each week only to drop the ball on the second day – so i want to at least write something. Wednesdays will generally be a time for me to share some thoughts on product development and leadership. I’ve… Continue reading Wednesday wisdom – 27 June
InTruthItsNotThatSimple 