Tag: productmanagement
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“Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking,” Samantha Coffman, KubeCon EU, March 2024. A lot of good commentary and advice on product managing the platform, some techniques, mindsets, etc. Chief among them: focus on the value/problem you’re solving first, then how you solve it second…also trying to quantify what the problem is so you can…
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devPRops – better put PR in your backlog
Better put PR on the backlog Art for no one, by no one. Art whose only audience is the collective pathos. Incredible. [AI culture problems as art] The Gemini thing: the conversation around AI technology is now based on how it can navigate social and cultural issues, less if it “works.” These social and cultural…
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Adding A Product-Led Growth Strategy To A Traditional B2B Organization – Among other things: don’t forget they your sales model is going to drive your product management, eventually.
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Product Management in Platform Engineering
Suggested soundtrack: I really enjoy the London Eye show. I don’t listen to it enough. This morning I gave my talk on platform stuff – platform engineering, building an app stack on kubernetes, etc. It was fun as always. I think there were some parts that were more shallow than usual, but I like the…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #68
Most software/cloud vendors have people who do competitive intelligence. Here’s what and who that work is useful for. Uses for Competitive Intelligence Jordi asked about the usefulness of competitive intelligence (at software/cloud vendors) in the Software Defined Slack. Here’s what I added to the thread: I think competitive intelligence is least useful for product management.…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #47
The newsletter is back, for now. This is actually issue #156, but who’s really counting? Your author, as drawn by daughter. New book, free Since sending out this newsletter I’ve published another book, which you can get for free: Many organizations are toiling away at their application modernization strategy. Most have created enclaves of digital…
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Link: The State of Agile Software in 2018
The third thing that I want to stress is the importance of getting rid of software projects as a notion. Instead we want to switch to a product-oriented view of the world where instead of projects that you spin up, run for a while and then stop; you instead say, “Let’s focus on things that…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #42
I’ve been trying to figure out micro.blog as a platform. Hosting all my stuff over there seems much nicer than at WordPress. I think I’ve got all my stuff setup there now, at cote.coffee. Really, it’s just a duplicate of what’s here – mostly links. This week I managed to be in both London and…
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Link: Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Black Swan Farming
For internal products, the “customer” is the enterprise, usually their strategy and execution, aka, “grind and stack.” Staff are, often sadly, meatware enablers in the value stream just like any technology. Optimize the VSM, make more paper. Original source: Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Black Swan Farming
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Link: Project vs. product management, in government
Good discussion of doing product management instead of project management. Also, discussion of user metrics to track design and usability: “Defining success metrics helps you focus on what’s important in your product and how well it solves the problems you’ve identified. Defining key steps the user must take is also important in order to shine…
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Link: Think in Products, Not Projects
“In a high level, projects are local optimization efforts. We get a group of people who create new (or improve existing) functionality for our customers and then we pass that onto a team that has no idea why the change was made and how this change was solutioned/implemented. Very often, the quality is low and…
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Link: Lessons from Elad Gil and High Growth Handbook
It’d be useful at some point to compare the “how to be a startup” advice to “how to modernize and suite of enterprise applications.” For example, an enterprise often knows its product/market fit (e.g., selling kidnapping insurance to executives). However, it may not know the best product/technology approach (it needs a mobile app that tracks…
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Link: The axes of HomePod evolution: don’t judge what you can’t yet see
“it’s important to bear in mind how every single Apple product tends to evolve: from MVP, aka minimal viable product, to thing that people buy by the million.” Original source: The axes of HomePod evolution: don’t judge what you can’t yet see
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Link: Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?
Figuring out product management for home automation/IoT. Plus a sampling of market-sizing and penetration stats. Original source: Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?
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