12/12/2024 Roadmaps are a challenging concept for PMs - maybe the most challenging concept. Many PMs believe it is a pro-forma part of...

12/2/24 it is often written that PMs are in the business of alignment, and communication is the craft but I have to say - almost...

nov 27, 2024 Somewhere along the way, last 10 years PMs started burrowing into the agile lifestyle - and when we did, we lost the lense...

Here's what your CFO thinks software development looks like (a version of underpants gnomes): BUILD FEATURE -> SELL FEATURE -> PROFIT!...

Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything? What if Product...

Watching Elon Musk talk about manufacturing is a guilty pleasure. Not because of amazing technical feats (to wit: Mechazilla) but rather,...

Reminds me of that old saying about wrestling with a pig - you both get dirty and the pig likes it. That's exactly what happens in...

Reminds me of that old quote from Bruce Lee: I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced...

October 21 2024 You are your calendar. As Tom Peters said a decade ago: The calendar never lies. You can claim something is your...

sept 30 2024 Reminds me of that old 30 Rock gag... We might not be the best people, but we’re not the worst - graduate students are the...

aug 21 2024 There was a movie in the 90s with jack nicholson that was called As Good As it Gets . Notionally it was about midlife trials...

august 20 2024 I live and breathe the "software business," as in, a company whose business is selling software and/or access to its...

august 19 2024 I keep encountering this phenomena and it baffles me. How can this possibly persist in this day and age. Even in the...

august 18 2024 Product Managers hate micromanagement and complain about it constantly. It kills motivation! It kills creativity! I hear...

i'd love to pick up the check but july 18 2024 We live in a moment of empowerment. A few years ago the term was the super-empowered...

DTW // jul 18 2024 You can get a lot of steps in at most airports. I have started pacing the terminals while I wait for my flight. I walk...

july 17 2024 I'm coming to believe that the single best fix you can make at a software company (especially one that is not performing to...

from Washington DC // june 27 2024 The modern software org is collaboration across, down, and up - all the directions. In this lattice,...

may 29 2024 PMs obsess about all the things, and how to differentiate and what the market needs and what the user needs and how to win...

may 28 2024 AI made me this picture of software faith. It's nice, I think. I've had too many meetings with financial types in the last...