NOTE: The following is a guest post by Shardul Mehta. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. If you are considering introducing Product [ … ]
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A 90-day Plan for New Product Managers
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Ninon LaForce. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. I was asked to formulate [ … ]
The Most Important Skills for Product Managers are …
By Saeed Khan Last week, I asked you (the readers), to answer the following questions – What are the base skills, tools, knowledge etc. that are either necessary or VERY [ … ]
Open Question: Your worst job-related mistake and lesson learned
Here’s another question for you. We all like to share don’t we? 🙂 So, let’s open up a bit and share some lessons learned with each other. We all make [ … ]
Shark Week is every week in Product Management
I love SHARKS! They are fascinating creatures and are often misunderstood and maligned. This week is one of my favorite times of the year. The Discovery Channel runs all types [ … ]
Product Management, the new Executive of Influence?
I’ve practiced the discipline, art and science of product management for over twenty years and have personal experience with the good, the bad and the ugly. One of the good [ … ]
Managing Product Management Distractions…
Last week while reading email, answering IM, viewing Twitter stream, looking at a text message from my son, reviewing a clients LinkedIn profile, answering a call and trying to focus [ … ]
Expectations and Product Leadership
I sat there listening as a director product management vented about the lack of expectations set by his executive leader. Have you ever been in this situation? Were you on [ … ]
5 Practical Ways to Improve Executive Communications
Everyday, product management and product marketing are barraged with data and information that finds its way into competitive intelligence, innovation, better requirements, insights into the buying process and more. In [ … ]
Good Bye “Product Owner”, Hello “Backlog Manager”
by Saeed Khan A few weeks back, I wrote a pair of posts about the title/role of Product Owner in Agile development environments: The Scrum title “Product Owner” must die! [ … ]