Happy 2021! I’ve been behind on posting here (it’s been almost 6 months!) so I apologize for the delay, but I’ve got a lot of great things to share Recent Blog Posts I wrote two posts for the Forrester blog that touch on popular subjects in recent client discussions: Roles and Responsibilities for Product Management… Continue reading Upcoming Presentations; Recent Blog Posts; Product Management Tip-a-Day

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LinkedIn Live: Customer Research in the COVID Era (August 26, 2020) I’ve done a lot of different types of presentations, but this Wednesday, August 26 I’ll be participating in my first ever LinkedIn Live session. The event — Customer Research in the COVID Era — is at 12pm US Eastern time / 9am US Pacific… Continue reading LinkedIn Live session; Product Momentum Podcast

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Product Management During a Market Crisis My last post on this blog was February 9, 2020. A lot has changed in the world in the last 4 months. Part of the reason that I haven’t posted here is I’ve been so busy with helping product management leaders and product managers deal with the impact of… Continue reading COVID-19’s Impact on Product Management; Upcoming Presentations

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Top Product Management Leadership Priorities For 2020 You may remember me posting last fall about some research we were working on at SiriusDecisions/Forrester to understand the biggest challenges and priorities of product management leaders. We had a great response — thanks to all who participated! — and the results are now available. You can read… Continue reading Top Product Management Leadership Priorities For 2020; Working Better with Sales and Marketing Leaders; Spring Events

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Last Chance: Product Management Leader priorities survey As part of some ongoing research I’m leading at SiriusDecisions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of b-to-b product management organizations, we’re conducting a short 5-question survey of product management leaders to gather more data on their challenges and priorities. We conducted a similar survey in 2014, so… Continue reading 2020 Product Management Priorities; Product Management Excellence E-book

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SiriusDecisions/Forrester is hiring! The team that I lead at SiriusDecisions — our Product Management Research and Advisory service — is growing! We’re looking for an experienced product management leader who is ready for the next stage and challenge in their career. If you…. Have a passion for b-to-b product management Love to solve challenging product… Continue reading SiriusDecisions is Hiring; Join me in San Francisco in August

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Three Tips for Getting More Value From Product Enhancements Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Unfortunately, randomly adding features to products without a plan for making sure users know about and get value from them is a common mistake I… Continue reading Getting Value from Product Enhancements; Good MVPs; Upcoming Product Management Events

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SiriusDecisions survey on agile across the organization; product management conferences and events where you can find me this spring

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Four Factors That Drive Product Management Excellence; Introducing the SiriusDecisions Product Management Learning Library; New E-Book -- Moving from Products Towards Solutions

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Twas the Night Before Product Launch ’Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme The landing pages were posted on the website with care, In hopes BANT-qualified prospects soon would be there; The support staff were waiting on call at their desks, While… Continue reading Twas the Night Before Product Launch; Product Management Implications of Moving From On-Premises to SaaS; Product Management Planning for 2019

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Product Management Planning for 2018; Guest Appearances on Product Management Podcasts; Upcoming Events You Can Find Me At

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August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership. Preparing for the Board: What Boards of Directors Want From the Head of Product Management

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Quick Survey: Agile’s Impact on Product Management Favor to ask — if your company uses an agile development process, please take this quick 3-question survey. It’ll take only about a minute (literally!) and if you want you can provide your email address and I’ll share a summary of the results with you. In the amount… Continue reading Agile’s Impact on Product Management; SiriusDecisions 2018 Summit

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Four Healthcare Product Management Trends for 2018 We work with b-to-b product management teams across many industries at SiriusDecisions, but lately we’ve been with more product management teams in companies that are healthcare-focused (e.g. healthcare information technology, medical devices, health analytics) as well as product management teams that have “horizontal” products (e.g. content management) where… Continue reading Healthcare Product Management Trends; Twitter Chat

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New blog posts, including: Helping Product Managers Triumph in an Agile World: The SiriusDecisions Agile Engine for Product Management and Help! Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Upcoming Events for Spring 2018 and What's Hot on Twitter

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Three Tips for Planning Next Year's Product Roadmap; SiriusDecisions 2018 Product Management Planning Assumptions; Upcoming Events

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SiriusDecisions SiriusView: Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2017; Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator; SiriusFoundations: Product Management

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Upcoming events and speaking engagements for Summer 2017; What Tools Are Product Managers Using? Results From The SiriusDecisions 2017 Study; Twitter recap of the SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit

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Why product management leaders should attend the SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit; results from the 2017 SiriusDecisions Product Management Tools and Technology Study

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Upcoming speaking engagements; interview on the Design Your Thinking podcast; Reminder about the SiriusDecisions Product Management Tools Survey;

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