Economics • 11 min read Moving from Services to Products I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies. (See this…
Customer Thinking • 4 min read Product or Feature? Stepping out of leadership challenges for a moment, here’s a practical topic that some product managers struggle with: is…
Jobs • 2 min read Metrics for Product Career Schools? December 6th’s Wall Street Journal [http://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-companies-delay-diversity-reports-to-rethink-goals-1480933984] called out that some of the Valley’s…
Leadership • 8 min read Productivity vs. Responsiveness Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management teams at enterprise software firms. These include…
Agile • 4 min read Measuring Product Managers (in Swedish or English) I’m back from a week of product management workshops and seminars in Sweden, including a Product Leadership event hosted…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Metrics and More Metrics Continuing a discussion that was raised in a recent discussion between Tom Grant and Saeed Khan where they (we) made…
Organizations • 1 min read Product Management Assessment Tool PM leaders, such as VPs or Director of Product Management, worry about the health of their teams and processes, not…
Market Thinking • 3 min read What’s Your Pricing Metric? I’m often involved in pricing discussions, which are typically introduced as “what’s the right price for my product?…