Yesterday morning, I came a cross a post on TechCrunch by Alexia Tsotsis entitled The Phone Call Is Dead. The argument she is making is quite plausible - as generations more accustomed to phone calls make room for younger generations with their respective preferred methods of communication, the phone call itself will eventually die off. And indeed, younger people use [...]
Well… 8 months and an employer later, I find myself finally rested enough to return to writing down my thoughts on product management. Since the last post, I have moved from a start up of roughly 50 people to a well established and respected publisher of that is one of the few who successfully transitioned [...]
Every now and again I get reminded just how blind management is without insight into the P&L of the product. It’s not that we cannot make good decisions without it. We can and we often do. However, the real truth is that without seeing the impact of those decisions of the P&L we really don’t [...]
By most part every product manager is guilty of at least once trying to provide his or her development team with a complete design and specifications of what they are supposed to build. We don’t tell them what issue we are trying to solve. We simply say “Build this!” and sure enough, they build to [...]
2009 was a turbulent year, but for me it was also a year of huge significance and positive change! This year I was able to accomplish a lot personally and grow professionally to the level of understanding I previously did not have. In September, I got a fresh start with a new company, which provided [...]
One of the most important distinctions that has to be made in any product development, and in Software Development specifically, is that simply gathering requirements usually leads to shoddy products. Think about it – if people knew what solved their pains, why would they not solve those pains themselves? Most people think of solutions as [...]
Throughout this blog you will find that I am a huge proponent and fan of Pragmatic Marketing Framework. It was this framework that was the difference for me between drowning in new responsibilities and actually taking steps forward in my career. Much of what I write here has been inspired by their work and I [...]
As product managers, we often hear and use the word “user”. Sometimes we give them names and descriptions, even full life stories, but we usually forget to also focus on those who sign the bill! For those of us working on consumer-oriented products, user persona and buyer persona could be the same person, but consider [...]
This is my second attempt at starting this blog… however, today I not only have slightly more conviction, but a great deal more perspective on the profession of software product management and what it is like to be both in the trenches as a product manager and in leadership. This blog is first and foremost [...]
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