Be an integrator, translator and communicator. Don’t be a terminator. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase that Product Managers are “the hub of the wheel”. I really don’t like that [ … ]
Category: Design
Honey, I bought the Phone. Confessions from the Cambridge Apple Store.
I have a perfectly good Blackberry 8200 series, but I’ve been waiting for a chance to hit the Apple store to check out the iPhone. If you’ve been reading our [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 4)
The 4 Cs of leadership: credibility, commitment, communication and courage Product managers need to be leaders. A truism no doubt. But what does being a leader really mean and how [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 3)
“Spidey-sense” instincts are good, hard data is way better For a sport known for it’s statistics, major league baseball has always been a game managed by instinct. Managers viewed the [ … ]
How to be a GREAT Product Manager (part 2)
Be technical, without becoming a technologist Product Managers need to focus on the “what”, and not the “how”. The charter of the PM is to define what needs to be [ … ]
What do you want to read about?
Hello. We’ve been at this for a couple of months now, writing about various PM related (and sometimes unrelated) topics. And while we will continue posting as we see fit, [ … ]
Frames of Reference
You’ve heard of the Doppler Effect right? No, not the Doppleganger Effect, but the Doppler Effect. Probably the most common example of the Doppler Effect is experienced when a vehicle [ … ]
Lessons from Harry Potter
So tonight is the big night for all those muggles who have waited for the final installment of the Harry Potter series of books. To all those Harry Potter fans, [ … ]
On Product Design
I was going to write a big entry about ethnography as a design tool, but that got me to thinking a more basic question: in your organization, who does product [ … ]