leadership
Entrepreneurial by Decree
Entrepreneurial-ship is not something that can be dictated, especially when your corp structure is incompatible. Saying it, doesn't make it so.
Jeffery Lebowski
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Business Travel, a bane of Product Management
Business travel, the term invokes jealousy in some people (you get to go to Europe AGAIN?), but reality is far less glamorous, a product management bane
Product Management
Does the GTD methodology work for Product Management?
GTD or Getting Things Done, touted as a method to organize your work so that you get more accomplished. However, it fails for me.
Product Management
Sales Meeting Musings
Sales meetings are like apple pie. Product Management often participates and contributes, yet is often baffled by the process, and feels like a fish out of water
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Email, is it a dying medium?
Email, the de-facto communication vehicle of the modern world, is losing its efficiency. Alas, the new wave of collaboration tools are not up to the task.
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You Don't Manage a Sexy Product. So what?
Sometimes, being a product manager isn't a sexy role. Even dull products need champions, and passion. If you find yourself there dive in. Own it like a boss
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How to Destroy Your Product Management Team
Out one side of executive's mouths they will praise the role of product management, yet, out the other side, they will often work to destroy the team.
Product Management
Strategy is Not Just Repeating the Current Buzzwords
Strategy is an essential part of the business, however, to do it right, requires insight, data, and leadership. Unfortunately, it often devolves to buzzword
Product Management
Large Companies Suck, or Why NIH floats to the top when it shouldn’t
One would be forgiven for thinking that large companies would have learnt the lesson of NIH, yet, often that is not the case. Product Management should look for the warning signs, and slay the NIH beast
Product Management
Sales, your “missing feature” risking a moderate order doesn’t drive my backlog
Sales often uses the urgency of a pending order to attempt to leverage a feature insertion into a development effort. Product management must hold the line
Product Management
Is Product Management like Winston Wolf?
Product management often feels like being Winston Wolf. When shit hits the fan, you call the Wolf.
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Why There Aren’t More STEM Graduates
The STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics) education path is lamented as not being popular, the Dude relates his experience in STEM land. TL;DR: it's really a difficult path fraught with barriers