I must have made some really relevant points in some comments (1,2) on the Cranky PM’s site, because she decided to honour me with a post entirely dedicated to refuting [ … ]
Not a Book Review: Software Product Management
Just a quick shout out about a new book on software product management, aptly titled: Software Product Management, Issues and Perspectives. The book is a collection of articles by various [ … ]
Your Blog on Wordle – Redux
Last week, I posted about Wordle and used a number of Product Management blogs as examples of how Wordle represents their content. I also asked people to try to identify [ … ]
Advice for managing up
Everyone, especially Product Management, needs to understand how critical it is to manage up. i.e. how to manage your superiors. In this frame of reference, your job is to ensure [ … ]
No Win/Loss? Blame…
As promised here are the results from the Win/Loss poll I ran last week. First, thanks to all those who responded. The question was: Why are you not performing Win/Loss [ … ]
Product Managers: Show your mettle!
When times are good, no one really needs Product Management. You build something marginally useful and someone funds it, people use it and some people even buy it. Looking back [ … ]
Kindle Fail!
It’s always amusing to see even sophisticated e-tailers such as Amazon make some bonehead mistakes. At minimum, it helps me feel better when I realize I’ve overlooked something obvious. So, [ … ]
Take the Win/Loss Poll….pretty please.
Not only do very few PMs/PMMs conduct Win/Loss analysis, but it seems even fewer want to spend 10 seconds to take the Win/Loss poll I’m conducting. Thanks to those of [ … ]
This is your blog on Wordle
I’ve always been a big fan of new meaningful ways to represent information. Perhaps it’s because I spent a number of years of my career working in companies that focused [ … ]
Win/Loss? Anyone?
The results of the 2008 Product Management and Marketing survey by Pragmatic Marketing (whew that’s a mouthful), are now out. Lots of good data to mull over, but like previous [ … ]