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Month: October 2014
Worth Repeating: How to be a GREAT Product Manager
by Saeed Khan Back in 2007, just a couple of months after we started this blog, I wrote a series of 6 articles under the banner: How to be a [ … ]
10,000 Hours of Product Management
By Alan Armstrong Have you read Outliers by Malcom Gladwell? It takes a lot of thinking about success and turns the thinking upside down. It’s a quick and easy read, [ … ]
The Most Important Characteristic of Innovative Companies
by Saeed Khan Over the years I’ve working in a number of companies, and I’ve had good working relationships with people in many more. And when looking at those companies [ … ]
Frustrated with your annual performance review?
by Prabhakar Gopalan It’s February and if your organization follows a calendar year (Jan-Dec) cycle for employee performance evaluations, chances are, you have completed your 2010 assessment and filled out [ … ]
Please Check Your Baggage…
By Jim Holland I’ve been traveling more and noticed when I fly, that people drag a lot of baggage onto planes. They are overloaded, exceeding size and weight limits, and [ … ]
Join us on Twitter for upcoming Product Management talks
by Saeed Khan The team at Brainmates have started a series of weekly Product Management discussions on Twitter (@ProdMgmtTalk). They go by the hashtag #ProdMgmtTalk. You can find a full [ … ]
Exactly like me: The perfect reference customer
By Alan Armstrong Most companies think that any satisfied customer is a good reference customer. But the truth is very different, and companies have lost deals because they don’t understand what’s [ … ]
Open Question: How high is security on the Product Management agenda?
by Saeed Khan With ever increasing frequency, we hear of some site or system getting hacked. Whether it’s Google, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page , the Nasdaq, the Advanced Physics Lab [ … ]
Conway’s law and organizational design for cloud computing firms
by Prabhakar Gopalan Conway’s Law It is worth recalling Conway’s law (first published 1968) for this discussion: Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure [ … ]