Paul over at Product Beautiful had a great post about RACI– a way to breakdown deliverables by the people who are: Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed for each deliverable. It’s very [ … ]
Partnering for Strategic Breakthroughs
I thought I’d give this one a dry title – it’s really about the iPhone again. But I thought people would be pretty tired of iPhone posts by now. So, [ … ]
The Benefits of Focus
Most products do a lot. It’s tempting to try to sell all that functionality at once. But a lot of products benefit from having less as opposed to more. Yesterday [ … ]
Seth’s Advice for Product Managers: Quit Now
Seth Godin gives some advice to real estate agents. Allow me to paraphrase his advice for Product Managers: Here’s my best advice (everyone knows a product manager or two, so [ … ]
Marginal Utility
Marginal utility is a basic staple of undergrad economics courses. Typically the value of a good goes down as you consume more of it. As I discovered this afternoon, I [ … ]
Product Management versus Marketing and Development
Some good comments on product management from former colleague Cadman Chui over at Red Canary. From some followup comments by Cadman: I believe Product Management should reside neither in Marketing, [ … ]
Further Proof that Product Management is not Marketing
Via Valleywag: PCampSiliconValley. A BarCamp-style unconference for Product Managers. March 15th in Sunnyvale. I wish I could be there, but Valleywag is right: it’s tough to say “I’m going to [ … ]
It Pays To Stay Cool
From Wired, on the iPhone development process: A product manager slammed the door to her office so hard that the handle bent and locked her in; it took colleagues more [ … ]
Why Choose This Feature?
Recently I finsihed reading Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions, by Read Montague, a fascinating book about how the brain makes decisions. It brings neuroscience, biology and computer [ … ]
The End of Infrastructure
Yesterday Amazon announced Amazon SimpleDB, an on-demand database service similar to their EC2 and S3 services. With this final piece of the puzzle, Amazon has put an end to the [ … ]