By Saeed Khan In late December, Prabhakar had a post with a few suggested New Year’s Resolutions. Our crack team of researchers 🙂 tell us that by the end of [ … ]
Category: Career
ProductCamp: The Unconference TEDxLocal for Product Leaders?
This past weekend I attended ProductCamp Austin #6 (PCA#6). How do you describe ProductCamp Austin? Imagine a TEDxLocal for Product Leaders in an Unconference format and open to all – with [ … ]
Ousting the middle manager in PM/PMM organizations
After reading an interesting post in HBR (The End of the Middle Manager), I’m compelled to offer my response. I find the HBR post timely and noteworthy. Here we go. [ … ]
Here’s what you said…
By Saeed Khan In December, I asked you to provide some input and help influence our content this year. There were several reasons for this, which I’ll get to shortly. [ … ]
New Year’s Resolutions – A few simple ideas
Three New Year’s Resolution Ideas Time to come up with a few New Year’s resolutions? Here are three simple ideas. 1) Read well and read a lot I like to [ … ]
The Essential Pieces of Strategic Product Leaders
In conversations with executives over the past year, I repeatedly hear stories or experience product managers who lack essential elements of product leadership. Not the person leading the team, (although that’s another [ … ]
Open Question: Why did you become a Product Manager?
My previous Open Question asked what you did before you became a Product Manager. This time I’m interested in hearing WHY you became a Product Manager? In my case, back [ … ]
Book Review: Take Charge Product Management
It’s been a while since I reviewed a book on this blog. BTW, if anyone wants to review books for this blog, contact me. OK, enough with the housekeeping, on [ … ]
In Defence of the Big Freaking Requirements Document
You’ve all seen them, probably had to read them, and maybe you’ve even written them. Some of them are so bad, you have to wonder what was going through the [ … ]
5 Steps to Building a Great Product Management Organization
Hi, I wrote an article for Pragmatic Marketing on this subject. It gives some guidance on building a scalable and effective Product Management organization. I describe 5 key principles to [ … ]