Yet again for this week’s blog post I want to share some ideas from April’s online Everyday Innovators Summit that I found particularly striking. In this case the thoughts came from a session Dan Olsen, author of The Lean Product Playbook, presented on finding product-market fit. If you’re involved in product development or listen to… Continue reading The challenge of finding product-market fit
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
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
I was speaking this week with some new people on my team about some key aspects of the way we as a company – and I in particular with my team – think about product management. I thought I’d share some of those thoughts here. The way I see my role as a product leader,… Continue reading Wednesday wisdom – 18 July
The past few weeks have been very busy with conferences, client visits, and a lot of end-of-year planning activities. I wanted to post three brief notes on things I’ve been thinking about during this time: Product marketing. I spent a few days recently at an annual industry conference and as I usually do I took… Continue reading Recent notes
I’ve written before about the importance in Agile software development of listening to the market to learn about painful and pervasive problems people will pay you to solve, and I’ve talked about ways that my team is engaging in more of these “voice of the customer” or “VOC” conversations both in person (where they work… Continue reading Voice of the customer
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