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Category: Culture
What’s the opposite of “analysis paralysis”?
I was discussing something with Alan today and during the conversation he said something like: Well, you don’t want to get stuck in analysis paralysis but you don’t want to [ … ]
How much revenue for each PM in your company?
Someone asked me a question recently and I couldn’t find an answer on the Web, so I decided to ask all of you for help. After reading my article, “You [ … ]
Little features and a lesson for Product Management
Today, while working on a different blog posting (to be posted soon), my browser, Firefox, froze. I use FireFox almost exclusively these days, mostly because it works well, and I [ … ]
Product Managers need time to breathe…
I’m going to make an assertion here, and please correct me if I’m wrong. I believe that the vast majority of software product managers are running full tilt in their [ … ]
What’s the deal with Personas?
The CrankyPM recently posted a good little rant on personas. It’s drawn some interesting comments from both sides of the persona camp (PCamp? 🙂 ). BTW, I’m totally jealous as [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 6)
In part 5, I showed how you can begin to decompose the areas where teams, particularly Product Management, provide key deliverables to other teams. Here’s what the heat map looked [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 5)
In part 4, I discussed processes, and talked about loosely-coupled and tightly-coupled processes. The reason I wanted to introduce those is because when I talk about understanding the Information Supply [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 4)
I received a number of requests for the “20 page document” mentioned in part 3 of this series, that defines the activities in the Product Management Deliverables grid. (see below) [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 3)
How important a role does Product Management play in your company? Is it truly a strategic role, or is that just what is written in the job descriptions when hiring [ … ]