Product Management
How to Not Get Your Features
One of the key roles of a product manager is to ride herd on the product backlog. Beyond setting priority, often you need to reject or refuse a feature.
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Features vs. Value
One of the battles that product management battles is the constant train of feature requests. Too many groups think that features are top priority, yet we in Product Management balance the value, and the overall package
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Useful tools for Product Management
Tools are critical to the product manager to be effective. Here I talk about some of my personal arsenal of tools to be effective, not a complete list, but useful aids to the job at hand
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What if other groups set prices
The art of Pricing is tricky enough without outside interference. Yet, each group has their ideas, and product management must navigate these paths without it turning into a brawl
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What do different groups look for in Product Management?
Product Manager connotes different images in different parts of the organization. Understanding their perspective is a first step to success, or at least understanding their attitudes
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Product Management Terror - Grade 10
Being central to the operation of a business, the Product Manager is in the middle of a lot, and that entails some seriously stressful moments
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The PLC - a Primer
Regardless of the size or maturity of your organization, you have a product lifecycle, even if it is undocumented. A start at understanding is in this post
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Looking to the Past
Occasionally, you learn that something you put in motion turns out well. Seeing such a product at a trade show makes product management worth it
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The "Myth" of the Product Manager as CEO
A common trope is that the Product Manager is like the CEO of the product. Alas, that can't be further from the truth, and we need to put that myth to rest
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How to build a kick-ass product team
A tongue in cheek reading of building a kick-ass product team. Sadly, this isn't entirely fiction, and is a true tale from the product management trenches
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Silly Engineer, Marketing isn't as Easy as it Looks
An engineer landed a senior Marketing job. He had "issues" and ultimately failed. A lesson learned case study, and a demonstration of the importance of the softer roles
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Product Management Lesson from the Apollo Program
The race to the Moon provides some interesting lessons for Product Management. Sometimes rigor, and a phased approach makes all the difference