I bought a small personal laser printer last year. It was on sale at the local electronics chain and cost me all of $79. It is small, less than 1 [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 3)
How important a role does Product Management play in your company? Is it truly a strategic role, or is that just what is written in the job descriptions when hiring [ … ]
Does your company have the RIGHT kind of problems?
Having worked at several companies, and known well many others, I’ve seen some patterns, both good and bad, within those companies. WRT problems in companies, some companies can be described [ … ]
Would you blog about this song?
I wouldn’t normally post videos in the blog unless they were part of the context of a larger article, but this one was too good to pass by without sharing. [ … ]
More Haiku madness…
The CrankyPM, Pivotal and Steve Johnson inspired me to write Product to be launched Have to find the perfect name Damn, all good ones gone Good Beta Programs Don’t just [ … ]
Prioritizing Features does not equal Product Management
I came across this blog post today: How to Outsource Product Management to Customers. With a title like that, I had to read it. The post starts out well: Product [ … ]
Product Management and Open Source initiatives
Ran across this posting on the Infoworld site. Some interesting tidbits here. And if you think working as a PM in a commercial ISV is tough, it’s much more complex [ … ]
Market segmentation, or lack of it at Facebook
I came across a new blog, a la 360, which just started a couple of months ago. The author recently posted a couple of articles related to Facebook. One blog [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I talked about the lack of maturity in the product management role in technology companies. Computer technology and software themselves are rather immature, and [ … ]
Who is the CrankyCEO?
So, a couple of weeks back, when the CrankyPM’s blog came back from a brief hiatus, I wrote a bit of a welcome back post. In it, I mused that, [ … ]