I had the chance last week to “attend” a virtual product management conference with some great presenters. Many of the sessions generated great food for thought that I expect I will be processing and blogging about over the next few months. The very first session by the conference organizer raised an idea I wanted to… Continue reading Minimum viable business case
Product teams are asked to plan in all kinds of ways and for all types of timeframes. We make individual sprint plans about how to hit our goals, and broad long-range plans about how to increase our penetration of existing client markets and grow into new markets we can serve. We have release plans that… Continue reading FAST planning
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
Those of you who’ve been reading my blog regularly over the years will not be surprised by these two things: I’m a firm believer in the value of principles over rules and I’m a huge fan of the Inside Intercom podcast. I’ve written often enough about principles that you can search my previous posts tagged… Continue reading Product principles
This morning I was listening to a podcast from Inside Intercom By the way, if you’re interested in product development at any level – if you’re a designer, a marketer, a developer, a product manager, a tester – and you are not listening to the weekly podcast from Inside Intercom then I strongly encourage you… Continue reading Problems, Outcomes, and Impact
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
It’s been over a month since my last post (I’ll write later about my busyness and my blog plans heading into the fall) but I wanted to share some brief thoughts today. I’ve been thinking a lot about the roles of Product Manager and Product Owner in my firm and thought I would post a… Continue reading Wednesday wisdom – 3 October
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
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