In 1991, Regis McKenna wrote a seminal article entitled Marketing is Everything that was published in the Harvard Business Review. The article paints a picture of technology as an agent [ … ]
Category: Development
Agile/Scrum Software Development and Product Management part 2
There have been a number of good comments on my original post on this subject and I thought, given that the Agile 2008 conference is happening here in Toronto this [ … ]
Entrepreneurial Proverbs
I came across a really good post from a couple of years ago entitled Entrepreneurial Proverbs. Reminded me a bit of my own post on Product Management Axioms. (OK, enough [ … ]
The Big Red Button
OK, so I know I said the post “How to LOSE customers!” would be the final one related to the APC UPS saga, but someone forwarded this link to me [ … ]
What’s in a name? A PM by any other name…
The Cranky PM has gotten herself into a big snit over a Business Week article about a day in the life of a “Product Manager” at Microsoft. Among other things, [ … ]
Forget research, let’s build something! – Redux
I’m somewhat surprised that I didn’t receive even one comment — for or against — on my post entitled Forget research, let’s build something!. As Product Managers, we regularly talk [ … ]
We’ve been nominated for…
Hi, Some days you get a surprise. Today, I found out that our little blog has been nominated in the Project Management category of the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08. [ … ]
Forget research, let’s build something!
Let’s start with a haiku: Research a concept? How accurate will it be? Build something, then see. I’ve written a couple of articles recently on the difficulties in developing successful [ … ]
Product success is not easy….part 2
Scott Sehlhorst wrote a good post entitled Successful Products:Lucky or Intentional? about my comment on Phil Myers post entitled Chasing Outcomes. Did you get that? 🙂 Phil had summed up [ … ]
We’re running a business, not a technology company
One thing I always try to remind myself of, is that in the end, my job is to make the business successful. Product Management is a business optimization function. In [ … ]