leadership
Barriers to Success, Why do so many Companies Erect Them?
Leadership changes bring new processes, Alas, sometimes they erect barriers that work to impair progress. Product Management must work around them.
Product Management
Articles and posts about product management, the practise, the art, and the reality of the role. Useful tips and guidelines
leadership
What to do when you go to Dinner with the Boss
A dinner invitation from the boss is both an opportunity, and a hazard. How you behave, and comport yourself can greatly affect your career.
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
Essentials
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
leadership
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.
Essentials
Buy vs. Build: The NIH dilemma
Build vs. buy, the classic dilemma, pitting tech prowess versus priorities. Never a clear decision, it is worth weighing carefully by product management
Product Management
Sales Droid, this is why your input is rated “low priority”
Sales is a good source of information, but take their feedback with a grain of salt, their horizon is short, and their view is the deal, not the strategy