pmdude"Faith-based product development" and its consequences on engineering teams, senior management, and product managers are explored in this edition.
Sales-driven organizations can lead to product managers continuously accommodating special customer requests, creating an unsupportable mess.
Painful realities of product management: refactoring troubles, sales blame game, unrealistic expectations, tactical work value, and product delays.
Developers often don't experience what the User see. They don't need to be on lousy hardware, but you should ensure that testing happens on systems closely resembling what ships.
Managing a less exciting product can still lead to success and make a difference in the market.
Product managers handle day-to-day firefighting and task switching, while juggling a backlog and limited resources.
Marketing and product management are evolving, with marketing becoming more focused on communication and product management taking on the role of real marketing.