By Rivi Aspler Can you say ‘No’ to customers’ requirements? Should you? Good product managers always keep their intended (and yet dynamic) product strategy in mind, i.e. the list of [ … ]
Month: October 2014
Breaking the Answer First mode of communication
By Prabhakar Gopalan Have you come across the Answer First method of communication? In the corporate world, you are often coached to ‘get to the point’, ‘get to the answer [ … ]
What A Product Manager Can Learn From The New Sales Playbook
By Josh Duncan HBR Insights recently had a podcast with author Matt Dixon on the topic of The New Sales Playbook. While aimed at the sales executives, I found the talk [ … ]
3 Tactics That Make Agile Releases Easier for Marketing & Sales to Digest
by John Mansour “I need a constant stream of new features and solutions to stay ahead of our competitors.” “Slow down! I can’t learn all the new functionality that fast.” [ … ]
User Stories That Developers Can Actually Work With
by Rivi Aspler Devout Agile evangelists will define a user story as a short, simple description of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new [ … ]
“Product Editor”? You’ve got to be kidding!
By Saeed Khan I came across a post on Andrew Chen’s blog entitled “Why companies should have Product Editors, not Product Managers“. Obviously I had to respond. 🙂 Yes, Product [ … ]
Customer Loyalty – You Get What You Give
by Saeed Khan I went to the local grocery store on Monday to pick up a few things we needed for dinner. It was nothing special, just some milk, vegetables [ … ]
Managing Internal vs. External Products
by John Mansour The vast majority of the product management ecosystem is tied to commercial (external) products. Having trained a significant number of product managers in both environments, I thought [ … ]