Leadership • 8 min read The Risks of Replatforming (Or How Major Platform Migrations Really Happen) Many companies have replatforming efforts underway. Architectures get old, new kinds of partners…
Leadership • 3 min read 5 Things To Do In Your First Week with a New Product …and 5 more for the first month. If you’re already a product manager and stepping in to take over…
Leadership • 4 min read The Surprise We Can See Coming A phrase has been popping into my head at recent client workshops. While emphasizing the need to think ahead, especially…
Agile • 3 min read Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap Recent conversations at several clients highlight an often-repeated set of magical thinking: beliefs by internal clients that development resources are…
Agile • 2 min read Review: “Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams” [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470746637.html]I’ve had the chance to read an early version of Mario…
Organizations • 5 min read Parenting and the Art of Product Management Over the years, I’ve told variations of this story many times: being a product champion is a lot like…
Market Thinking • 2 min read Avoiding a Ticking B-O-M In our enthusiasm to get started on software projects, we often jump right into the coding and UI design that…