June 23, 2014
You're Agile — But You Still Need a Product Roadmap
Being agile with scrum teams can save and destroy you — if that is all you think you need. Only those unaware or unafraid will admit that they are not agile converts these days…
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June 16, 2014
When It’s Time to Walk Away
If you are reading this — you probably are not the type of person to give up easily. Either am I. You are ambitious and skilled and continue to push forward regardless of what…
June 12, 2014
5 Steps to Get a Product Marketing Job at a Startup
I keep finding myself telling people that marketing has profoundly changed. In the last few days, I have told the same story at a fundraiser to an attorney, at a soccer game to a…
June 6, 2014
Manage Tasks, Assign Features, and Track the Product Team's Work
A product manager is nothing without a strong product team and capable engineers. You may have the greatest product strategy and visual roadmap ever crafted — but if you don’t have…
June 3, 2014
Innovation Wasteland
Creating great products is invigorating. And employees who have a chance to be creative should be the happiest people on earth. But your company probably never fully benefits from…
May 29, 2014
Stop Calling Software "Enterprise-Grade"
The strategy-of-the-day seems to be to slap the word “enterprise-grade” on a product and then think that the product is miraculously ready for large businesses to buy. The idea is…
May 27, 2014
You Don't Want This Perfect Job
I have the perfect job to offer you — but you do not want it. You actually do, but cannot communicate how you could stretch to fill in the areas where you have limited experience…
May 23, 2014
Trust the Engineers — Do Not Put Bugs on Your Roadmap
A very bright product manager at a startup asked me this morning. “Should bugs exist on my roadmap?” This is a fascinating question and one that does come up every few days or so.…
May 19, 2014
"Design Thinking" Destroyed Us
Design thinking will cure all your innovation ills. It will remove any customer cruelty from your product or service and deliver nothing but honey and flowers and tender kisses.…
May 19, 2014
Shorten the Innovation Cycle with Idea Management Software
Our idea management software (often referred to as idea software) just took another few leaps forward. You probably already know that by combining the ability to capture ideas,…