You’re Not Helping
Most of my writing is aimed at the product organization, and in helping that organization evolve to where it needs...
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Product Discovery Diary
When product managers and designers move from the very linear, Waterfall-based processes, to the much more iterative and exploratory discovery-based...
read morePortfolio Grooming
I have never seen a technology product company that didn’t have more ideas they wanted to pursue, than capacity for...
read moreInspiring Product Leaders
Last week Silicon Valley and the Internet industry lost one of its pioneers. For those that knew him, Mike Homer...
read moreProduct Management in Economic Downturns
One consequence of having been around this industry for a while is that I¹ve seen several cycles. Sometimes the downsides...
read moreMoving from an IT to a Product Organization
Quite a few companies that exist today began life as something other than a product or Internet software company. Perhaps...
read moreWhat Makes a Great CTO?
The job of the product manager is to define the products that the product development organization will build. Even with...
read moreProduct Organizational Structure
In earlier articles I have discussed the key roles in the product organization – product managers, product designers, engineers and...
read moreProduct Management Models Part 2
In a recent article (The Best Product Management Model) I discussed the notion that there is no single best product...
read moreGetting From Idea To Product
Contributed by Marty Abbott From the “C”-suite offices to the product manager’s desk, everyone seems to be frustrated with time...
read moreThe Best Product Management Model?
One question I get quite frequently is “Google is making boatloads of money, so how can we do product management...
read moreSeed, Feed and Weed to Succeed
By Marty Abbott In my earlier article I used the sports management analogy to make the case for actively managing...
read moreThe Role of the CEO
This article is from an interview I did recently with a long-time friend and serial entrepreneur Danny Shader. We were...
read moreBuilding High Performance Teams
This article was contributed by Marty Abbott. Professional sports teams know that having the right team to accomplish the job...
read moreRecruiting Product Managers
Probably the single most common question I get from CEO’s is where to find great product managers? I tell them...
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