by Saeed Khan I want to run a little experiment. As Product Managers, often what we SHOULD be doing and what we ACTUALLY do are quite different. This can be caused by: [ … ]
Month: October 2014
The ice-bucket challenge — a big lost opportunity
By Saeed Khan Unless you’ve been out at sea or in an isolated mountain cabin this summer, you’ve probably heard of the so-called “ice-bucket challenge“. It involves pouring a bucket of [ … ]
Rules for customer visits #2 – Moderation is key
by Saeed Khan While understanding things like “a day in the life” of your users can be very useful, most people have better things to do than recount the minutia [ … ]
Meeting Product Goals is Pure Luck
By John Mansour Unless your sales team is given quotas for each product, there’s no conceivable plan product managers can execute to meet revenue goals for their products. When they [ … ]
We Don’t Need Another Manifesto
by Saeed Khan First of all, thanks to Tina Turner for inspiration for the title of this post. 🙂 Second, this post is my response to the following tweet by Melissa Perri [ … ]
Onboarding for Product Management
by Mike Smart A few years ago, a friend of mine recommended the book Topgrading by Brad Smart, Ph.D. One “a-ha” moment for me was the cost of hiring and [ … ]
Experience or Vision — How to make great products
By Anders Lisdorf Reading Steve Jobs’ biography set in motion a train of thoughts that took me from the Jobs/Gates controversy over history of religion and philosophy to what we [ … ]
Rules for Customer Visits #1 – Know thy customer
by Saeed Khan Ever had a customer visit go bad? It’s happened to me once or twice. If the customer has a blocking issue with your product and it’s causing them [ … ]
Product Marketing – Undervalued and Overlooked, Still!
by John Mansour When I founded Proficientz in 2001, my perspective on product marketing was analogous to the awakening I had when I first moved away from home to go [ … ]
Is it possible to measure the impact of Product Management?
by Saeed Khan One of the very first articles I wrote on Product Management was titled “You can’t never have too many Product Managers“. I think that was back in [ … ]