Via Product Beautiful, an article in Newsweek about Associate Product Managers at Google.
Transparency in Product Priorities
Product managers are always looking for better ways to get feedback from customers on which new features are most important. A few companies have embraced the “Web 2.0” model and [ … ]
Good Resilience vs Bad Resilience
Pretty much everyone agrees that resilience is good, especially in software. When one of a million external dependencies fails you don’t want your software falling over like a poorly designed [ … ]
Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions
From OnStartups: Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions. There is an overlap between entrepreneurship and product management; sizing markets and opportunities [ … ]
Amusing Tales of Product Managers
From the NY Times: “Yeah,” he said, “I couldn’t tell you at the time, but your review was right on. I wouldn’t have used one of those units on my [ … ]
Doing Better Demos
A post today on Adaptive Path’s Blog seems apropos to the discussion of tradeshows. Want to do a better demo? Learn the secrets of pick-up artists!
Why Demo At Tradeshows?
By Ethan Henry So I have to go with Saeed here in response to Steve’s posting on tradeshows. Just because a lot of companies handle trade shows badly doesn’t mean [ … ]
Fantasic Followups
Recently I got a fantastic followup email from a service I had signed up for online: This is amazing. It’s short, it’s to the point and it’s dead easy for [ … ]
Quick Links: Don’t ask for what you want when you negotiate
Alan wrote about negotiations before. Penelope Trunk, in her great Brazen Careerist blog, writes about negotiations: Don’t ask for what you want when you negotiate. Now, her examples focus mostly [ … ]
More On Being A Great Product Manager
I wish I had a funny link to something on YouTube showing a moron being a product manager, but I guess there are some things too obscure even for YouTube. [ … ]