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

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

It is often written that PMs are in the business of alignment, and communication is the craft. But I have to say - almost universally -...

You are your calendar. As Tom Peters said a decade ago: The calendar never lies. You can claim something is your priority, but if your...

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

What if Product Management isn't about going faster? What if the whole point of Product Management is to SLOW THINGS DOWN? Here's what...

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...

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

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

I live and breathe the "software business," as in, a company whose business is selling software and/or access to its software. It's an...

I keep encountering this phenomena and it baffles me. How can this possibly persist in this day and age. Even in the "on-prem" packaged...

Product Managers hate micromanagement and complain about it constantly.   It  kills motivation! It kills creativity! I hear this a lot,...

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