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 Product In the Time of Cholera I have about a dozen coaching/mentoring calls each week with product leaders, and the tone of those calls has…
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 • 5 min read Prioritization Requires Strategy I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director [http://www.mironov.com/director/] of…
Agile • 1 min read Roadmap Process or Roadmap Results? Listening to concerns from a client about an unsatisfying roadmapping process… his main issue was wanting a better roadmap: one…
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…
Market Thinking • 3 min read The Roadmap Less Traveled Every tech start-up struggles to create a roadmap: that short set of PowerPoint slides which defines the next six quarters…