Executives • 9 min read Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and…
Organizations • 11 min read The Chocolate Cake Problem In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies…
Customer Thinking • 5 min read Why Product Request SLAs Fail Building on a post from last July about Incompatible Worldviews… Almost every Go-to-Market-side enterprise stakeholder I interview tells me that…
Roadmaps • 1 min read Podcast: Customers are more forgiving about roadmaps than sales teams I joined Phil Hornby on his Talking Roadmaps podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about purpose(s) an audiences…
Leadership • 4 min read Shoulder To Shoulder I talk with CPOs/VPs of Product almost every day. And with CTOs/VPs of Engineering every week. A frequent…
Innovation • 6 min read Business Cases Are Stories About Money Last week, I had three separate conversations with VPs of Product about business cases… initially framed as “do you have…
Leadership • 8 min read Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is…
Leadership • 5 min read Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management? I’ve been mulling this for a while, recently prompted by thoughts from Josh Robb [https://twitter.com/josh_robb]…
Leadership • 8 min read Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and…
Leadership • 5 min read The Software Development Deli Counter I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise…
Agile • 7 min read Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical As deeply data-driven, analytical product managers (or product owners or business analysts or development leads), we’d like to pretend…
Agile • 3 min read 6 Lessons for Non-Development Executives at Agile Software Companies In many conversations over the last few months, I’ve see executive teams grappling with the positive effects of agile…