If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings.—Dave Barry [ … ]
Category: Collaboration
Worth Repeating: Customers – How to work with Product Management and Influence our Product Direction
by Saeed Khan I originally wrote this post a couple of years ago, but some recent experiences with customers reminded me of it. Some customers are really easy and great [ … ]
Disagreement is good – learn how to deal with it
By Fred Engel Far too many organizations have not established effective mechanisms to resolve the conflict that inevitably occurs when multiple people have different ideas about what to do next. [ … ]
Breaking the Answer First mode of communication
By Prabhakar Gopalan Have you come across the Answer First method of communication? In the corporate world, you are often coached to ‘get to the point’, ‘get to the answer [ … ]
Walking the Talk – Prabhakar Gopalan and kanban2go
As some of you may know, Prabhakar Gopalan is a contributor on this blog. And while he’s not been as frequent in his contributions this year as he was last [ … ]
What Happened to All Those Strategic Product Managers We Hired?
NOTE: The following is a guest post by John Mansour. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information The words “strategy” and “strategic” are [ … ]
How to Deal with Collaboration Breakdown
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Catherine Constantinides. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. Is it just me or does [ … ]
Add value or get out of the way!
By Saeed Khan One question that came up at ProductCamp Austin, and that comes up often in discussions about Product Management responsibilities, is how to manage (and deliver) on all [ … ]
Guest Post: Sticky Notes and Fish Bones – Finding and Understanding Core Problems
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Kellie Jones. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. In the early days of [ … ]
That Product Owner (er…Backlog Manager) debate again….
Tweet this: It’s that Product Owner (er…Backlog Manager) debate again http://wp.me/pXBON-2U3 #prodmgmt #agile By Saeed Khan There was a vibrant discussion on the Twitter Product Management Talk yesterday. The topic, [ … ]