By Saeed Khan Ask 10 people for a definition of the word “innovation”, and you’re likely to get 10 different answers; maybe more depending on who you ask. Don’t believe [ … ]
Category: Culture
Product Management is spreading…technologists take note!
By Saeed Khan Back in 2000, before the tech bubble burst, I saw an interview with Steve Jurvetson – now a Managing Director at venture firm Draper Fischer Jurvetson. Steve [ … ]
Ousting the middle manager in PM/PMM organizations
After reading an interesting post in HBR (The End of the Middle Manager), I’m compelled to offer my response. I find the HBR post timely and noteworthy. Here we go. [ … ]
Here’s what you said…
By Saeed Khan In December, I asked you to provide some input and help influence our content this year. There were several reasons for this, which I’ll get to shortly. [ … ]
A call for Product Managers Without Borders!
You’ve almost certainly heard of Doctor’s Without Borders, the international humanitarian organization of doctors and other medical personnel who help those those in need after natural (or man-made) disasters occur. [ … ]
Would someone please put Yahoo! out of its misery?
The bells seem to be tolling for Yahoo. Paul Graham wrote this piece – What happened to Yahoo – a few months back, declaring that, amongst other things, Yahoo’s definition [ … ]
Book Review: Take Charge Product Management
It’s been a while since I reviewed a book on this blog. BTW, if anyone wants to review books for this blog, contact me. OK, enough with the housekeeping, on [ … ]
Guest Post: 4 ways that Agile methods brought sanity to my company
NOTE: The following is a guest post from Wayne Mulligan. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. ——– The company I founded almost [ … ]
Worth Repeating: When Form Doesn’t Follow Function
NOTE: This post was originally published in January of 2009. It’s interesting to note that almost 2 years later, Aptera has yet to ship any vehicles to customers, and is [ … ]