I came across this blog post today: How to Outsource Product Management to Customers. With a title like that, I had to read it. The post starts out well: Product [ … ]
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Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I talked about the lack of maturity in the product management role in technology companies. Computer technology and software themselves are rather immature, and [ … ]
Who is the CrankyCEO?
So, a couple of weeks back, when the CrankyPM’s blog came back from a brief hiatus, I wrote a bit of a welcome back post. In it, I mused that, [ … ]
Do Product Managers need Domain Knowledge?
As part of the second Pragamatic Marketing blogfest, I’m responding to Steve Johnson’s post: “Everyone needs to know what we do here“. In it, Steve writes about the need for [ … ]
Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions
From OnStartups: Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions. There is an overlap between entrepreneurship and product management; sizing markets and opportunities [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 1)
I recently finished a series of articles on being a Great Product Manager. I want to switch gears a bit and spend some time talking about the function of Product [ … ]
Fantasic Followups
Recently I got a fantastic followup email from a service I had signed up for online: This is amazing. It’s short, it’s to the point and it’s dead easy for [ … ]
Some Product Management reading
Over the last few years I’ve written several articles that have been published by the folks at ProductMarketing.com. I discussed one such article, Product Management Axioms, in another blog post. [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (Boxed Set with Bonus Features!)
I recently completed a six part series of articles entitled: How to be a GREAT Product Manager I started writing the series as an analogue to Ken Norton’s posting on [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 6)
Own the product from conception to completion and beyond In my early product management jobs, I focused a lot on the process of product management. A CEO of a startup [ … ]