Last month, I spoke at the Business of Software (BoS) conference in Boston. BoS has been on my short list for a very long time and it did not disappoint. […]
Product in Practice: How One Product Manager Innovates in Big Companies
One of my goals at Product Talk is to showcase what good product management looks like. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new series, Product in Practice, where I’ll profile […]
Show Your Work: How to Justify Your Decisions & Get Stakeholder Buy-In
Last month, I spoke at Mind the Product San Francisco. The following transcript is how the speech was written and does not match the talk exactly. — I want you […]
Engaging Stakeholders with Opportunity Solution Trees: 3 Tactics to Try
Two and a half years ago, I introduced the opportunity solution tree. It’s been a blast seeing product people put it into practice. Today, I’m excited to share Hope Gurion’s […]
Continuous Product Discovery is for Everyone [Case Study]
When I write or speak about continuous discovery, I worry that people are enamored with this way of working, but aren’t doing the work to put it into practice. It’s […]
Taking Continuous Discovery to the Next Level at SEEK [Case Study]
As a discovery coach, I work with all kinds of companies and teams. Some are brand new to discovery, others are already far along in their journey. To start, I […]
Adopting a Continuous Discovery Mindset Across the Organization
I teach two courses at Northwestern University. I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people […]
Prioritize Opportunities, Not Solutions
I cringe every time I see product teams use a spreadsheet to rank the ideas in their backlog based on some made-up math formula usually consisting of things like business […]
