This is part 1 of a series of guest posts by Don Vendetti. Don is the founder of Product Arts, a product management consulting company in Seattle. NOTE: If you’d [ … ]
Category: Culture
Taking the “mess” out of Messaging (part 4)
This is part 4 of the series. Here are links to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. In this part, I’ll take a look at whether the industry can [ … ]
Taking the “mess” out of Messaging (part 3)
Continuing this series (click the links for part 1 and part 2), let’s look at the following question: How can we get out of this mess? Given the problems cited [ … ]
Taking the “mess” out of messaging (part 2)
In Part 1, I provided a couple of examples of very poor messaging. The first was from an email that I received that contained lines like: “Design a Monetization Strategy [ … ]
Support the Cranky PM at BoS 2009
While there are many places I’d love to be in mid-November, there’s definitely one place I really want to be (but can’t) on Tuesday November 10, 2009. And before I [ … ]
6 Engineers, a CEO and a PM
In light of the recent posts on Bill Campbell (1, 2) and some of the comments debating when to hire a PM, I was pleased to read the following in [ … ]
Bill Campbell says, It all starts with great products!
Here’s a bit more from the Bill Campbell interview. I posted the first excerpt in “Bill Campbell says hire Product Management first!“. Michael Moe is the interviewer. This exchange takes [ … ]
Canada’s Innovation Gap (part 2)
In part 1, I discussed the findings described in an article entitled Canada’s Innovation Gap, which was published in the Globe and Mail earlier this year. In short, it indicated [ … ]
8 lessons we can learn from Infomercials
You know you’re a Products Geek, when you find a show like Pitchmen appealing. Pitchmen, on the Discovery Channel, is a behind the scenes docudrama about infomerical marketers and how [ … ]
Canada’s Innovation Gap (part 1)
While this post is targeted at the innovation, funding and technology issues in Canada, it may apply to other geographies as well, particularly if you don’t live/work in technology hot [ … ]