Long-time readers know that I value user-centered design. I advocate for constant contact with your customers. I encourage product managers to immerse themselves in their customer’s world until they feel like they are drowning in data. It’s only then that we can develop meaningful products. For the past two years, product managers have been my […]
Must Reads From My 2015 Reading List
I’ve read 74 books to date in 2015. What follows are my top recommendations from that list. Books with Strong Ties to Product Management The first four relate to product management – empowering autonomous teams, decision making, creativity, and the life of Steve Jobs. 1. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex […]
How I Use December to Super-Charge My Coming Year
December is one of my favorite times of year. I do my best to reduce my client load so I can spend about 50% of my time looking back on the past year and looking forward to the next year. I assess how the year went asking, what went well, what could have gone better, […]
The Next Product Talk Experiment
It’s Thanksgiving week here in the United States so I’m going to keep this short and sweet. I’m trying a new experiment. I hear often from product managers that they don’t know what coaching is. Coaching isn’t a common model in the product world. Most of the people that I’ve worked with will tell you […]
