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I recently posed a simple question on LinkedIn: What are your top tips for new product leaders? I was simply blown away by the response this post received. Clearly, there are plenty of people in my network who want to share their experience and learnings with other new leaders. Rather than keep it contained within my LinkedIn feed, I decided I’d gather their advice here so it’s perhaps a bit easier for people to find and share with others. Here’s what they had to say.
Read MoreIs your organization dabbling in new frameworks or methodologies, but you’re unsure about their potential success? You're not alone. Many "trendy" frameworks often turn out to be underwhelming due to one major pitfall: superficial implementation.
Read MoreAre you a Head of Product, Product Team Lead, or CPO looking for someone to support you as you set about developing a strong product organisation? Look no further. I can help you to become the confident and self-aware product leader you want to be.
Read More2022 is almost over, but I have one final Community of Practice (CoP) interview to share with you! This one is a little different since I’ve been working with Sarah Reeves and StepStone to help build out and mature the product CoP. Be sure to check this interview out if you’re especially interested in the early stages of getting a CoP up and running.
Read MoreKeeping focus is definitely a challenge as a one-woman show. And that is why I put together this annual blog post: Because it helps me with exactly that. Gaining focus. I come back to this post multiple times throughout the year and I sometimes use it when I have to politely explain to people why I can’t do what they want me to do (speak at a meetup, share my opinion on software they are developing, give them some advice, speak at their conference, write a chapter of their book, the list goes on and on!).
Read MoreWe all know: constraints are good. They are the fuel for our creative thinking. But for life choices and career planning, I see too many people accepting constraints way too easily. They are living on autopilot. Instead of creating their own future, they are more accepting of the future others have in mind for them.
Read MoreThroughout 2022, I’ve been conducting interviews with people who lead and participate in product Communities of Practice (CoP). I’m excited to share the next installment in my series, featuring Priya Biswas, Director of Product Management, Business Analysis and Organizational Change Management Practice at ATB Financial.
Read MoreI recently attended a product meetup and have to share an observation: Many of us could better introduce ourselves. So I’m sharing real-life examples with this post of how an improved introduction could look like.
Read MoreFrom MTP Engage Hamburg to Product at Heart - what you can expect and why you should get your tickets early. Read the full story here.
Read MoreWe’re back with the next interview in our series of discussions with product Community of Practice (CoP) leaders. I’m thrilled to introduce you to Nesrine Changuel, a Product Manager for Chrome iOS, who’s based at Google’s Paris office.
Read MoreAs part of my ongoing research into product Communities of Practice (CoP), I have been conducting interviews with people who organize and participate in these communities, both within their companies and in the larger external product community. In today’s post, you’ll hear from Zainab Arilesere who is the Head of Product at Omnibiz Africa as well as the organizer of ProductTank Lagos.
Read MoreA CoP will help product people share best practices and ways to solve specific challenges. It will make it easier for product people to understand how your organization works and how to effectively work with others outside the product team. This post talks about how to get started with your product community and it contains tips on how to mature this community over time.
Read MoreFor the next post in the series of interviews about product Communities of Practice, we’ve got a real treat for you! Teresa Torres is a product discovery coach, teacher, and author of the wildly popular book Continuous Discovery Habits. In addition to these roles, she’s also the facilitator of the Continuous Discovery Habits community where product folks from all over the world come to cheer each other on as they build their skills around continuous discovery.
Read MoreIn an earlier post, I’ve already shared my key learnings from the conference program. Here are a few other learnings and observations—some from the attendees, some personally from myself.
Read MoreWe put a lot of thought into curating the content for the MTP Engage workshops and conference. Our goal was to provide a lot of thought-provoking and actionable material for experienced product people. Want to get an overview? I share some of the highlights and key takeaways in this blog post.
Read MoreMTP Engage Hamburg is a three-day event packed full of workshops, panel discussions, keynotes, and networking, so rather than try to cram everything into a single blog post, I’ll be writing a mini-series of MTP Engage Round-up posts. This first post focuses on the Product Leadership Forum portion of the event.
Read MoreI’ve observed a trend over the past few weeks. There seems to be a major shift in the business world. In the past, the best growth stories have attracted senior leadership and investors. But this no longer seems to be the case. In 90% of the coaching sessions I’ve had with product leads over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed how to “pivot” their product strategy from a growth story to a profitability case.
Read MoreAs the title of this post explains, I’m going to be taking two months off from working with clients. I know this announcement might be a little surprising or unexpected, so I wanted to take a moment to share my reasons and motivations for this decision.
Read MoreAs part of my ongoing research into product Communities of Practice (CoP), I am continuing to interview people who organize and participate in these communities, both within their companies and in the larger external product community. In today’s post, you’ll hear from Patrick Sauerwein, a Technical Product Manager at Deutsche Telekom AG.
Read MoreIt’s been a little while since my last update—as I shared at the end of last year, I’m spending a little more time in 2022 researching and developing my knowledge of product Communities of Practice. But I’m happy to say that I’m still out there discussing my favorite topics for product leaders, so I’m back with some new STRONG conversations for you to check out! Please give these a watch or listen and be sure to share them with any coworkers or fellow product people who you think would enjoy them.
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