Writing
Books:
Product Management in Practice
(Second Edition O'Reilly Media, 2022)
Product Management in Practice is a real-world guide to the day-to-day practice of product management. Incorporating stories from working product managers across industries and company sizes, this book focuses on the mission-critical connective skills that all product managers must develop to succeed in their work. Simply put, this is the book I wish somebody had handed me when I started working as a product manager.
You can order Product Management in Practice via Amazon here.
Agile for Everybody
(O'Reilly Media, 2018)
Agile for Everybody makes the principles and practices of the Agile movement accessible and actionable to everybody in a modern organization, from product managers and engineers to marketers and executives. Including real-world stories from Agile practitioners at companies like IBM, Spotify, and Coca-Cola, Agile for Everybody provides a jargon-free blueprint for how teams and organizations of all time can become faster, more flexible, and more customer-focused.
You can order Agile for Everybody via Amazon here.
SELECTED Articles:
Living to fight another day when “success metrics” are out of reach.
How to avoid “gamifying” your product into oblivion.
Even the best customer service can’t fix the damage done by company-centric decision-making.
Agile Adoption Is Not Agility
How Can We Implement Agile in a Way that Lives Up to Its Name, when only 4% of respondents to a major survey say Agile is actually making them more… agile?
When data models don't match social models.
Unpacking why psychological safety often proves so elusive for product teams.
Why customer insights, not robot guitars, are the future of the musical instrument business.
The asynchronous communication tools preferred by most organizations are exacting an enormous and largely unseen toll.
A pledge to reduce busywork, increase collaboration, and deliver better outcomes.
The quest for small, fast, and autonomous teams is creating fragmented, confusing, and disjointed experiences.
Redefining product management as a connective role.
Why most organizational transformation efforts are more or less the same — and why most of them fail.
A co-write with Pivotal’s Gabrielle Bufrem, describing common traps that undermine strategic product management.
From hard skills vs. soft skills to connective skills.
Why your company's sink is full of dirty dishes.
podcast appearances AND INTERVIEWS:
“Matt LeMay on Why Agile Is for Everybody”
On curiosity as a core value, and identifying opportunities for personal and professional
On the CORE skills of product management (Communication, Organization, Research and Execution)
On the CORE skills of product management (Communication, Organization, Research and Execution)
"Navigating Human Complexity Is Product Management."
"The Art of Active Listening and Product Management"