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5 Market-Facing Skills for (Some) Agile Product Owners
This completes a long three-post series (1,2) proposing a skills model for product owners, partly borrowed from market-facing product management responsibilities. I’ve tried to reach beyond simplistic...
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Workshop: Market-Facing Skills For Product Managers/Product Owners
As a product owner, are you wrestling with conflicting user groups, managing roadmaps in complex organizations or justifying investments into your product? As a technical product manager, do you need...
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Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 1)
Newton taught us that gravity’s not just a good idea, it’s the law. I’ve spent a lot of the last decade with one foot in the engineering organization and the other with marketing/sales. While the two...
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Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 2)
Post #1 noted that your development team will never, ever, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams. – which led to The Law of Ruthless Prioritization. Here’s a second fundamental reality of...
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Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 3)
Our two previous post noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams (pushing us to The Law of Ruthless Prioritization) and that all of the profits are in...
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We had 130 RSVPs for this Product Tank Dublin talk on software, strategy and product management. Held in the Custom House underground vaults that originally held whiskey and wine! What: Four Laws of...
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Agile@Cork
Agile@Cork graciously hosted me for a talk on software, strategy and product management What: Four Laws of Software Economics Where: Blackstone Launchpad Creative Zone, Boole Library UCC, Cork When:...
View ArticleProduct Tank Silicon Valley, Four Laws of Software Economics
It was tremendous fun kicking off Product Tank Silicon Valley at Intuit’s gorgeous facility. Topic: Four Laws of Software Economics Where: Intuit, 2750 Coast Ave (Building 6), Mountain View When:...
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The DIY Illusion
I’ve recently talked with several companies that are spending $1M/year or more to build generic software that is very similar to commercially available products. In each case, they’ve ended up with...
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Productivity vs. Responsiveness
Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management teams at enterprise software firms. These include extensive interviews with a range of internal stakeholders. One pattern...
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Jan 31/Portland: Four Laws of Tech Product Economics
What: Four Laws of Tech Product Economics Where: NAVEX Global, 5500 Meadows Rd, Suite 500, Lake Oswego, OR When: Tuesday, Jan 31 (6:00 pm) Hosted by: ProductCamp Portland, NAVEX Global REGISTRATION...
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“My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”
(combining a series of similar conversations) Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. As VP Product, I’m having...
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Sydney Workshop: Managing Stakeholders and Priorities
Managing Stakeholders and Priorities: A One Day Workshop for Product Managers Cohosted by Brainmates and Rich Mironov Where: Brainmates, Level 6 / 100 Clarence St, Sydney, Australia When: 1 March 2018,...
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Seattle, 4 Aug: Upgrade PM
Seattle’s Product Management Community (PMC) is sponsoring an afternoon to upgrade product skills: Where: Talaris Conference Center, 4000 Northeast 41st Street, Seattle When: Saturday, 4 August,...
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Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 2)
Post #1 noted that your development team will never, ever, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams. – which led to The Law of Ruthless Prioritization. Here’s a second fundamental reality of...
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Product Love Podcast with Pendo’s Eric Boduch
Pendo’s Product Craft podcast series includes conversations with a range of product leaders. Eric Boduch, Pendo founder, hosted this 45 minute conversation with me. In this episode, we talked about:...
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How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software
Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques,...
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Nov 14th Live Q&A: “Making Product Roadmaps That Work”
What: Live Q&A on “Making Product Roadmaps That Work” Sponsor: Business of Software When: Nov 14th, 4pm GMT / 11am ET / 8am PT Register here! The roadmapping process is almost always broken....
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We had 130 RSVPs for this Product Tank Dublin talk on software, strategy and product management. Held in the Custom House underground vaults that originally held whiskey and wine! What: Four Laws of...
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March 10 & 12: Designing, Structuring and Leading Product Organizations...
Saeed Khan and I will be leading a pair of one-day workshops in Toronto and Kitchener/Waterloo — providing insights, frameworks and tools to help attendees create high-performing product management...
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