Having worked at several companies, and known well many others, I’ve seen some patterns, both good and bad, within those companies. WRT problems in companies, some companies can be described [ … ]
Category: Culture
Prioritizing Features does not equal Product Management
I came across this blog post today: How to Outsource Product Management to Customers. With a title like that, I had to read it. The post starts out well: Product [ … ]
Product Management and Open Source initiatives
Ran across this posting on the Infoworld site. Some interesting tidbits here. And if you think working as a PM in a commercial ISV is tough, it’s much more complex [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I talked about the lack of maturity in the product management role in technology companies. Computer technology and software themselves are rather immature, and [ … ]
Who is the CrankyCEO?
So, a couple of weeks back, when the CrankyPM’s blog came back from a brief hiatus, I wrote a bit of a welcome back post. In it, I mused that, [ … ]
How different people handle change
As a Product Manager, you are required to deal with all parts of the company, from marketing to development to finance to operations to the executive team; you need to [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 1)
I recently finished a series of articles on being a Great Product Manager. I want to switch gears a bit and spend some time talking about the function of Product [ … ]
Disneyland knows Product Management
By Saeed Khan A couple of years ago, when we were still living in the SF Bay Area, we took a family holiday down to Southern California. The objective was [ … ]