You know, sometimes I wonder why I’m not working in consumer products. Not consumer software, but consumer products. I’ve joked about this with my software product management friends before. Life [ … ]
OnProductManagement plagarized!
Hi, I’m sure this happens all the time on the web, but I just ran across 2 – likely related – blogs on Blogspot that have lifted my iPhone vs. [ … ]
Product Managers need time to breathe…
I’m going to make an assertion here, and please correct me if I’m wrong. I believe that the vast majority of software product managers are running full tilt in their [ … ]
Goodbye File menu, hello throbbing Orb
We recently upgraded from Microsoft Office 2003 to Microsoft Office 2007 at work. Clearly Microsoft has put a lot of effort into upgrading the UI in the various components of [ … ]
Forrester on Product Management
I’m quite happy to report that Forrester Research has started a blog covering Product Management: http://blogs.forrester.com/product_management/ Here’s link to the bio of the analyst writing the blog: http://www.forrester.com/rb/analyst/tom_grant IMHO, [ … ]
What’s the deal with Personas?
The CrankyPM recently posted a good little rant on personas. It’s drawn some interesting comments from both sides of the persona camp (PCamp? 🙂 ). BTW, I’m totally jealous as [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 6)
In part 5, I showed how you can begin to decompose the areas where teams, particularly Product Management, provide key deliverables to other teams. Here’s what the heat map looked [ … ]
A test when hiring Product Managers?
A quick question here, hope some of you out there can help. What kind of tests or test questions do you give to Product Managers when hiring them? When hiring, [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 5)
In part 4, I discussed processes, and talked about loosely-coupled and tightly-coupled processes. The reason I wanted to introduce those is because when I talk about understanding the Information Supply [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 4)
I received a number of requests for the “20 page document” mentioned in part 3 of this series, that defines the activities in the Product Management Deliverables grid. (see below) [ … ]