A Big Announcement!

For the past two years, I have worked in the software-as-a-service team at Dell, managing a team of product managers.  We’ve been plotting the strategy for Dell to make the transition from a hardware-based company to a mixed hardware/software/services company.  It’s been a fun, challenging, rewarding role.  Last week I accepted a new role, one that I am very excited to do and that will allow me to go out and hopefully meet more of you face-to-face.

Through involvement in events like ProductCamp, as well as mentoring and teaching product management in my own roles, I have learned that I enjoy and am good at the teaching side of the job.  For that reason, I’m excited to announce that I will be joining the creators of the world’s most popular product management and marketing training: Pragmatic Marketing!  I will be an instructor at Pragmatic Marketing, traveling the world helping product managers and marketers learn to be more effective.  If you have been to one of their seminars, or have implemented their framework at your company, you know that their message of being market-driven and empowering product managers is absolutely essential for success.

As a side effect of this change, you should start to see a few more posts in this space.  I will provide a lot of credit to Dell as a company for being very progressive about their blogger policy.  However, this blog became a victim of its own success, and enough people at Dell knew me and read this space that it became difficult to write, even when keeping situations semi-anonymous.  I now appreciate the CrankyPM that much more.

There are a lot of smart people at Pragmatic Marketing that you should be reading, I will list a few of them here:

• Steve Johnson (Blog, Twitter)
• Dave Daniels (Blog, Twitter)
• Jon Gatrell (Blog, Twitter)
• Pragmatic Marketing Publications
• Pragmatic Marketing on Twitter