Last week, I posted about Wordle and used a number of Product Management blogs as examples of how Wordle represents their content. I also asked people to try to identify [ … ]
Category: Saeed
Advice for managing up
Everyone, especially Product Management, needs to understand how critical it is to manage up. i.e. how to manage your superiors. In this frame of reference, your job is to ensure [ … ]
No Win/Loss? Blame…
As promised here are the results from the Win/Loss poll I ran last week. First, thanks to all those who responded. The question was: Why are you not performing Win/Loss [ … ]
Product Managers: Show your mettle!
When times are good, no one really needs Product Management. You build something marginally useful and someone funds it, people use it and some people even buy it. Looking back [ … ]
Kindle Fail!
It’s always amusing to see even sophisticated e-tailers such as Amazon make some bonehead mistakes. At minimum, it helps me feel better when I realize I’ve overlooked something obvious. So, [ … ]
Take the Win/Loss Poll….pretty please.
Not only do very few PMs/PMMs conduct Win/Loss analysis, but it seems even fewer want to spend 10 seconds to take the Win/Loss poll I’m conducting. Thanks to those of [ … ]
This is your blog on Wordle
I’ve always been a big fan of new meaningful ways to represent information. Perhaps it’s because I spent a number of years of my career working in companies that focused [ … ]
Win/Loss? Anyone?
The results of the 2008 Product Management and Marketing survey by Pragmatic Marketing (whew that’s a mouthful), are now out. Lots of good data to mull over, but like previous [ … ]
Godin vs. Gladwell: Fight!
In Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent book, Outliers, he uses a metric of 10,000 hours of effort as a measure of time it takes for someone to master their chosen profession [ … ]
What do we call this mess?
It’s been difficult to find a good term to describe the economic climate we’re in now. As difficult as the R-word was for political leaders 6 months ago, having said [ … ]