There is much talk about how an organization should drive product direction and execution. I am currently involved with quite a few companies who are looking to tweak their performance in this area. Product teams strive to provide the right direction and it is that critical analysis of the holistic product situation which is crucial. Some think…
Tag: Product Management
My Top Blogs while at Cisco – Early Insights into Cloud
After the acquisition of Tidal Software where I was working by Cisco and the teams moved toward cloud automation as a major area of focus, I decided to jump into blogging. A close colleague, Rodrigo Flores, suggested that it was critical that I figure out my blogging voice. Of course my Cisco blog was not…
Invent Thirty Ideas in One Hour
Think is isn’t possible? Intellectual Property (IP) is a force that drives innovative product and service development and deployment. Big companies protect their positions through strategic use of their patent portfolio. Some companies maintain a bank of patents and make money solely by attacking other companies unlicensed use of their portfolio. At HP Labs, as…
Ink, Digital Cameras and the Innovators Dilemma
This is a story of unadulterated profit-seeking and how that mentality threatens to cloud your thinking in the corporate world. When I was at HP Laboratories, my colleagues and I were constantly busy, toiling away at any number of technologies. Many of those technologies were based upon semiconductor manufacturing processes and Integrated circuit design that would eventually…
Two Philosophies From My Yoga Instructor Applied to Product Management
In the product management discipline, we like to think of ourselves as CEO of our product. We can tend to become slightly obsessed with the success of each product, and we own it like the fate of the company depends upon it. The discipline of product management is based on a few key philosophies. My…
Who Are These Developers Anyway?
Throughout my career, I’ve worked on countless projects involving enterprise management software for IT jockeys across various lines of business. Within this field of expertise, we’ve all encountered enterprise software at some point during our career. The extremely practical, albeit boring UI, the constructs of users, groups and roles, on premise installers and ilk of that sort….
Why the Big Players Keep Acquiring Cloudy Companies
Business Units (BUs) have insatiable desire to buy other companies. Why is that? In this article, I’ll explore a few things motivating this phenomenon. Having been on both sides I have a few observations that I hope can help shed some light on the backroom motivations at large companies. Let’s look at some of the…
Your Early Career is a Contact Sport
I’m always amazed when I talk to friends from outside of the Bay Area that the general consensus is that a day at work here plays out a lot like the movie “The Intern.” It’s all about the perks and the fun, without any of that pesky work getting in the way. The cool, free lunches and disruptive…
From Chemistry to Clouds 