I’ve always liked the Major General’s song from The Pirates of Penzance. If you are not familiar with the song, first watch the two videos at the bottom of this [ … ]
Category: Culture
What can we learn from Cassatt’s demise?
There’s an interview with former BEA co-founder Bill Coleman in Forbes about the last days of his company Cassatt. Bill Coleman is now the founder and CEO of Cassatt Corporation, [ … ]
The problem with “find an unsolved problem…”
The common wisdom for developing new products, goes something like this: Find an unsolved problem or an unmet need Identify who values that need Build a profitable solution for that [ … ]
More ProductCamps!
I’m happy to see that a number of cities are holding ProductCamps. Previous ones have included Silicon Valley, Austin, Boston and Toronto. Now two new ones are in the works [ … ]
Six Characteristics of Product Managers
After an unintentional and rather protracted break from blogging (a bad flu in February, followed by a really busy work and personal schedule for the last few weeks), I’m returning [ … ]
Adam Bullied vs. Enthiosys: Don’t Fight!
Adam Bullied has a post last week entitled “Are agile PMs baloney?” First off, great title. No burying the lede here. You can read the post on Adam’s site, here’s the [ … ]
Reorg time: Put PMs and PMMs in the same department!
Wow! At the time of writing this post, almost 80% of respondents to my poll, asking If Product Management and Product Marketing should be part of the same organization, answered [ … ]
Should Product Management and Product Marketing be parts of the same department?
Here’s another organizational structure question for you. Given the tight working relationship that Product Management and Product Marketing (ideally) should have and knowledge, roles and objectives that they have, should [ … ]
Initial Results: Problems in Technology Product Management
So, the survey is now closed. I’ll be looking at the responses, sharing them and commenting on them over the next few days. While there were a variety of responses, [ … ]
Open Question: Why doesn’t Engineering report to Product Management?
There are lots of discussions about how Engineering and Product Management should be structured and interact. But one I rarely hear discussed is that of Engineering reporting into Product Management. [ … ]