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Sometimes you just need good reminders … now is one of those times, for me at least. Stress is inevitable if you serve in a product management role for any length of time. And while you can’t necessarily control the external circumstances that cause stress, you can manage…
A brief note on my 23rd book for the year, a collection of essays from John Brooks entitled Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street. Brooks, who wrote for The New Yorker among other publications, delves into some of the big business stories of the 1960s in these well written reflections… Continue reading Business Adventures
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
As a product owner working with a growing suite of products in an active market, I am frequently asked to “do a demo” of our product for a new prospect. Our development team, support team, and consulting team all work closely with each other and with the business development team and the marketing team to… Continue reading What’s in a demo?
By temperament I am somewhat of an intellectual. I enjoy abstract conversations and discussions about the “right” way to do things. My personality type – according to tests like the Myers Briggs Temperament Indicator or the Enneagram – tends to the idealistic, meaning I place a high value on integrity and push myself and the… Continue reading Agile theory and messy reality
Originally posted on Applied Product Management Leadership:
“Is purpose more important than profit?” This question was posed by Alan Murray, editor of Fortune Magazine, and referenced in this post by Mark Weinberger, CEO of EY. It’s an intriguing thought because even from a young age with school and grades, we are taught results matter. This certainly…
I recently finished reading my third ‘book’ this year: Spiral is a 5-issue arc in Amazing Spider-Man 16.1 – 20.1 written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Carlo Barberi with inks by Juan Vlasco and colors by Israel Silva (plus letters by Joe Caramagna). I could also talk about ‘reading’ a fourth book since I… Continue reading Spiral
Let me begin by saying that if you care about product development and product management then I encourage you to follow Steve Johnson on Twitter (@sjohnson717) and check out his blog (http://under10consulting.com/). His insights are consistently useful, his experience helpful broad, and his writing style clear. If you follow me on twitter or read my… Continue reading ASPIRE – from Steve Johnson
Many months ago I started writing a 10-part series on Agile planning (you can read the first post here if you want to catch up; then keep going forward from there to find the other pieces, most of which are tagged as “Planning”). Since that ambitious beginning I got frequently sidetracked and so I never… Continue reading Daily planning
The topic of technical debt came up in a couple of settings this week at work. I’ve written about this topic before here (among other places) but two different situations raised this issue in the past week and a third provoked an interesting set of questions. First was a response from one of my readers. … Continue reading Technical debt
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