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 [ … ]
He Said, She Said: How can Product Management and UX work together
By Saeed Khan and Heather Searl In a recent post Saeed mentioned the potential overlap of some responsibilities between Product Management and User Experience  and Heather touched on the subject in [ … ]
Lessons learned from being a beta-tester
by Saeed Khan If you’re a Product Manager, you’ve probably conducted a beta program of some kind. It may not have been called a beta program; maybe it was called [ … ]
The Secrets to Great Product Demos (or how to be a Demo-God)
By Saeed Khan Have you ever sat through a product demo and then at the end of it thought, “Well that’s an hour of my life I’m never getting back.” [ … ]
Six Questions You Should Be Asking Your Salespeople
by Matt Volpi Salespeople and product managers aren’t always the best of friends. A salesperson is driven by their individual goals and compensation. They are often too busy or uninterested [ … ]