For a long time, I've been asserting that most* B2B revenue-side executives can't hear anything we say unless it includes a currency symbol. Sentences lacking a $ or € or £ are inaudible. That includes explanations about how we build things: roadmaps full of boxes and project names; agile methodologies; analytics that show| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
In most of my CPO coaching engagements, we eventually come around to the problem of “politics,” usually framed as frustration with C-level peers doing unexpected or unreasonable or department-centric things. My default response is that we call it “politics” when we’re not good at it, or when it’s| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I’m part of many discussions where tech company execs try to apply Return on Investment (ROI) tools to make hard choices about what to build, or where to invest costly-and-scarce development resources. It rarely turns out to be as useful as we hoped. Where ROI is absolutely fundamental to| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I’ve written a lot about how we (as product folks) love to talk about how our teams build things: releases and sprints and backlog ranking models and product operating systems. (Oh, my!) But many of our colleagues and audiences are deeply uninterested in what happens in the kitchen. Another| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
