When you stare at this picture, is the design problem as obvious to you as it is to me? This is a picture of my shiny new MacBook Pro (13″), [ … ]
Steve Johnson on Win/Loss, Ivan Chalif’s Digest, and Alan’s musings about the discipline of PM
Steve Johnson has probably taught 50,000 people how to do Win/Loss Analysis. Here are his views on Win/Loss Analysis. We couldn’t agree more. Ivan Chalif at The Productologist has also [ … ]
Games executives play: Guess what’s in the envelope
Some of you will be too young to remember Johnny Carson playing Carnac the Magnificent. But I am guessing you’ve seen this game before. On the Carson show, Johnny would [ … ]
Your CV is a sales document, not a feature sheet
Last weekend my nephew Josh asked me to take a look at his résumé. He’s only 17 years old, so how hard could it be? Provide his name, address, phone [ … ]
pCampNYC: Kudos, controversy, and ideas for future pCamps
Well I have half recovered from PCampNYC. In a sentence: 8am start, an energizing day of meeting, interacting, presenting,facilitating, and … yes, eating. I give huge kidos to the event [ … ]
OnPM speaking @ pcamp NYC
Hi folks, Alan here. I can’t actually promise that I will be speaking at Product Camp NYC. Why? Because this is an unconference, and the participants will choose the topics [ … ]
The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing
A mentor of mine used to repeat this line fairly often to me: The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing. The quote comes originally from Stephen [ … ]
Summer’s here: Do something different
Yes, summer is here, and the vacations are beginning. Many of your co-workers are using this time to check out of their responsibilities, take a slower pace, to take some [ … ]
Reference customers for YOU, Inc.
Do you have reference customers? Think about that question again. I’m not asking about your company. I’m asking about you personally. The next time you are interviewing for a job, [ … ]
(How) do you measure customer satisfaction?
Dear Readers, I will be writing an article on how to measure customer satisfaction in B2B software. To prepare for that article I would like to hear your experiences or [ … ]