Run, Don't Walk To Your Next Product Management Job
If you ever spent time around a pool as a kid — someone yelled at you “walk don’t run!” I was reminded of that yesterday while on vacation in Kauai, Hawai‘i. I watched…
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You're Agile — But You Still Need a Product Roadmap
Agile software development is effective, but it is not designed for setting strategy and product direction. Learn how to be a strategy-drivien agile team.
When It’s Time to Walk Away
If you are reading this — you probably are not the type of person to give up easily. Either am I. You are ambitious and skilled and continue to push forward regardless of…
5 Steps to Get a Product Marketing Job at a Startup
I keep finding myself telling people that marketing has profoundly changed. In the last few days, I have told the same story at a fundraiser to an attorney, at a soccer…
Manage Tasks, Assign Features, and Track the Product Team's Work
A product manager is nothing without a strong product team and capable engineers. You may have the greatest product strategy and visual roadmap ever crafted — but if you…
Innovation Wasteland
Creating great products is invigorating. And employees who have a chance to be creative should be the happiest people on earth. But your company probably never fully…
Stop Calling Software "Enterprise-Grade"
The strategy-of-the-day seems to be to slap the word “enterprise-grade” on a product and then think that the product is miraculously ready for large businesses to buy.…
You Don't Want This Perfect Job
I have the perfect job to offer you — but you do not want it. You actually do, but cannot communicate how you could stretch to fill in the areas where you have limited…
Trust the Engineers — Do Not Put Bugs on Your Roadmap
A very bright product manager at a startup asked me this morning. “Should bugs exist on my roadmap?” This is a fascinating question and one that does come up every few…
"Design Thinking" Destroyed Us
Design thinking will cure all your innovation ills. It will remove any customer cruelty from your product or service and deliver nothing but honey and flowers and tender…
